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This partial fix via Normandy means a relevant part of the user base may still be in the dark: tech-savvy power users with many extensions who have chosen to disable normandy. (This is probably also the group which is most affected by reset extension settings)

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Indeed, I had opted out of Normandy, SHIELD studies & co after the Looking Glass/Mr. Robot promotional ad fiasco.

Tentatively re-enabled, it's now 2 hours since the announcement but I haven't received the preference flip study yet. A couple more hours before my fox's lastUpdateTime rolls around and my extensions get disabled, patiently waiting to see if I'll have to take manual action!

Edit: Funny, my app.normandy.run_interval_seconds was set to 24h for some reason, the new default seems to be 6h. I wonder how many people are also in that situation.

I found that setting app.normandy.first_run to true and then restarting firefox triggers the hotfix study to be installed (and the pref then automatically sets itself back to false)

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