RE: Widespread Firefox issues

["Keith Medcalf" <kmedcalf () dessus com>]

Aha!  Did the same and it worked.  I had disabled Normandy probably immediately when it was introduced.  I guess if you 
have it disabled then studies (even if enabled) are disabled as well.

After getting the studies I disabled studies again (since I don't want them) and disabled normandy (since I do not want 
external third parties frikking about with my settings just cuz they feel like it) -- if you want to fiddle with the 
settings on my equipment you have to physically be within the blast radius of the device you are fiddling with (or the 
automated Nitrogen oxygen purge system).

We will see what happens mid-afternoon tomorrow when Firefox tries to run a signature check again (since the original 
problem report was in error -- the check is only run once every 86400 seconds, so at the next check after the 
intermediate certificate expires the add-ons will be disabled).

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org] On Behalf Of Royce
> Williams
> Sent: Saturday, 4 May, 2019 15:44
> To: nanog () nanog org
> Subject: Re: Widespread Firefox issues
>
>
> 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