On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 8:02 AM Royce Williams <ro...@techsolvency.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 7:40 AM Royce Williams <ro...@techsolvency.com> > wrote: > >> On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 7:32 AM Keith Medcalf <kmedc...@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