uninstalling ABP from a rooted Android device blocks non-https browsing

[philll]

Environment

Reported user case: Galaxy S GT-I9000 rooted with SlimKat v4.4.2
Affirmed case: Nexus 7 rooted with Android 4.4.2
ABP from dev builds with filtering switched on

How to reproduce

1. Uninstall ABP from the phone
2. With any given browser, try to open a non-https page
3. Open an https page

Observed behaviour

The non-https page cannot be loaded, the https-page loads fine. In a first test with switched off ABP filtering, browsing worked well after uninstalling. Apparently, after having ABP uninstalled in a second test with switched on filtering, a third trial with switched off filtering again does not fix the browsing behaviour again.

Taken from ​https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=22742&sid=c7f95328ef63b7a3731b4990a8538f4c

Expected behaviour

Both pages should load.

[CalebFnord]

OP here.

Not sure what I did, but it involved several installs, disabling filtering and uninstalls, which didn't seem to work, and finally a hard reset (press and hold Galaxy S power button) is what did it - browsing is restored to normal. Sorry I can't be more helpful, I didn't methodically debug this.

[rjeschke]

This is currently not fixable because we don't have a reliable way to get notified on force-close and uninstall.

Workaround:

• tell users to disable ABP before uninstalling
• if they forget to disable the proxy, restarting the phone fixes the issue