Hartmut Buhrmester <debian-bugreports-elnw-u...@hartmut-buhrmester.de> wrote:
> So I think, that the setting xpinstall.signatures.required = false is > not really needed. > > Enabling "studies" and using a short update interval of 5 seconds > should do the trick. I think the opposite is true. I had xpinstall.signatures.required set to false before the certificate expired, and no extensions were or are disabled for me. The only effect is the display of the text "[Extension] could not be verified for use in Firefox. Proceed with caution." displayed for every single extension in the add-on page, and that was only after I had prodded it by clicking "Check for updates". My settings for app.shield.optoutstudies.enabled and app.normandy.run_interval_seconds are the default values (false and 86400, respectively). Do you have any information indicating that the "studies" can be activated in any way in the Debian version of Firefox? I tend to believe the Preferences page text (right where the studies checkbox is disabled): "Data reporting is disabled for this build configuration". That is, the Debian version is compiled without this available. Do you have any reason to believe this to be false? Your observed behavior could easily be explained by the fact that Firefox doesn't check the signatures immediately, and it might have happened to check them just as you were altering the "studies" settings, which themselves did nothing. My installed version is: Package: firefox-esr Version: 60.6.1esr-1~deb9u1 /Teddy Hogeborn
