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Re:All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate... by teddyh on Saturday May 04, 2019 @10:34AM (#19826689)
> noticed my extensions were still running.

Reportedly, Firefox only checks the date once per day, so if it hasn’t yet checked for you today, this will be the result.

> I looked in about:config and lo and behold, app.normandy.enabled=default [true].

I would assume that the config setting only has any effect if the feature is available in the build. Which it isn’t in Debian.

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Re:All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate... by DoctorOetker on Saturday May 04, 2019 @01:09PM (#19827749)
that would be good news, how can I verify that the Normandy feature isn't available in the Debian build?

Has Mozilla provided instructions to manually fix the issue? if so where? (XORcat was helpful to provide a solution, but I refuse to apply it if it doesn't come from Mozilla itself...)

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Re:All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate... by teddyh on Saturday May 04, 2019 @06:15PM (#19829734)
> how can I verify that the Normandy feature isn't available in the Debian build?

In the Debian bug about this issue¹ it says “Firefox from the Debian package has data reporting disabled so using studies is not possible.”

1. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=928415

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