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Can we get a clarification: Unchecking "Allow Firefox to install and run studies" in the UI does not change "app.normandy.enabled" to "false". Then, does unch

• vesinisa 7y ago
  As explained on Normandy's wiki page, they are related but two different things: > Preference rollout is meant for permanent changes that we are sure of. Shield is meant for testing variations and figuring out what, if anything, is the best thing to do. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Normandy/PreferenceRollout#Relationship_with_Shield https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Normandy/PreferenceRollout#...
  • pynabi 7y ago
    That doesn't answer the question: does Normandy get disabled by the UI option or not? One can guess based on the wiki page that the answer is "no", but that's just a guess.
  • robolange 7y ago
    "Explained" is perhaps too generous a word. I'm a software engineer and I found that page to be confusing. It seems to be written for internal Mozilla employees, not for the general public.
  • stefan_ 7y ago
    Except as we have learned "preference rollout" is also "installing extensions". So this is much the same as studies, but studies was disgraced, so now this is studies 2.0, no option to disable this time around. And if you look at the big normandy JSON, hey, it's all the same Pocket and heartbeat shit we've seen from studies.