Re: Widespread Firefox issues

[Royce Williams <royce () techsolvency com>]

On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 8:02 AM Royce Williams <royce () techsolvency com>
wrote:

> On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 7:40 AM Royce Williams <royce () techsolvency com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 7:32 AM Keith Medcalf <kmedcalf () dessus com> wrote:
> >
> > > I will stick to the "clearly false" since it is now well to the point
> > > where we are in 2019-05-04 (even in local UT1, let alone UTC), studies are
> > > disabled (and have been since forever), no studies have been loaded, and my
> > > extensions still work quite fine, thank-you.  Attempting to install a "new"
> > > extension fails with a "bad signature" error.
> >
> > Here's something interesting - a few times now, I've told Firefox to
> > enable Studies and then restarted ... but the Studies setting reverted to
> > being unchecked.
> >
> > Maybe one of my other paranoia-enabling extensions is toggling it off ...
> > but if so, I haven't found it yet. Still investigating.
>
> Even stranger, I can manually toggle 'app.shield.optoutstudies.enabled' in
> about:config ... and *that* persists across reboots ... but Studies *still*
> aren't enabled (the about:preferences item is still unchecked, and the
> "about:studies" area still indicates that they're disabled).
>
> There's definitely something weird about enabling/disabling studies.
>
> FWIW, this is 64-bit 66.0.3 on Ubuntu, and it's an instance of Firefox
> that had studies disabled before this issue emerged. On a very similar
> setup, but one with a vanilla Firefox install that already had Studies
> enabled, I can't recreate this symptom - even if I turn Studies off (either
> using the GUI or with the about:config item).

Multiple people have replied offthread that they have the same symptom.

This workaround worked for me:

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/bkk5ss/if_you_dont_want_to_wait_do_this/

Royce