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Interesting. Sadly, I imagine many users will have studies disabled since the Mr. Robot incident. I've re-enabled it but there does not appear to be a way to force it to check for updates. Guess it will show up in the next 6 hours.



You can set app.normandy.first_run to true and then restart Firefox.


I've seen the same tip elsewhere and tried, but didn't work for me.

What did (seem to) help was setting app.normandy.run_interval_seconds to a small value (21). At least just a couple of seconds after I did, all my addons came back.

Edit: plugins -> addons


Remember to put it back to normal after!


Thanks, that worked!

Out of curiosity, how did you know that? What does this actually do?


I think it just triggers firefox to check for any new studies on the next launch

I stumbled upon this myself earlier


I just checked my preferences to make sure it's still disabled.


FWIW, they say you can disable studies as soon as the hotfix is loaded. Seems to work for me.




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