Disabling of sending of add-on information to Mozilla

Mozilla introduced the Get Add-ons dialog in the add-on manager of Firefox and Thunderbird in Firefox 4 and Thunderbird 5. It basically displays a list of featured and recommended add-ons for the user which they may or may not find useful.
 
The personalized recommendations are based on the add-ons that you have installed in the Firefox or Thuderbird if you have at least three add-ons installed. The program sends information about the installed add-ons to Mozilla once per day so that the recommended section on the Get add-ons screen can be updated.

Firefox and Thunderbird users may have two issues with the Get add-ons feature of the browser. First, it is sending add-on information to Mozilla once per day, which seems a bit excessive considering that most users probably do not make that many changes to their list of add-ons to justify that. The second one is the recommendations are not useful to justify keeping the feature enabled.
There's a way to disable the sending of add-on information to Mozilla.

Firefox
Press Shift-F2 to open the developer console. What you need to do here is set the preference firefox get add-ons extensions.getAddons,cache,enabled to false. You do that with the following command.

Thunderbird

You need to click on Tools>Options in Thunderbird and switch to Advanced>General Theme. Click on the config Editor screen here and enter the same preference name into the search box i.e., extensions.getAddons.cache.enabled

Double click the preference when it is displayed to change its value from true (enabled) to false (disabled). It is likely that other Mozilla-based programs have the same setting, provided that they also do display add-on recommendations in the application.

You gotta note that setting the preference to false blocks the updating of add-on metadata in the browser. Metadata includes screenshots, the description, ratings or downloads.


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