diff --git a/src/components/experiment-list/experiment-list-element.js b/src/components/experiment-list/experiment-list-element.js
index 546f6ffe5bec7d450acf28e0fdb611f666b494ab..0ff1c462ce33adef3676b237b4146b489fd38580 100644
--- a/src/components/experiment-list/experiment-list-element.js
+++ b/src/components/experiment-list/experiment-list-element.js
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import React from 'react';
+import { Link } from 'react-router-dom';
 import { FaTrash, FaFileExport, FaShareAlt, FaClone } from 'react-icons/fa';
 import { RiPlayFill, RiPlayLine, RiPlayList2Fill } from 'react-icons/ri';
 import { VscTriangleUp, VscTriangleDown } from 'react-icons/vsc';
@@ -161,15 +162,16 @@ export default class ExperimentListElement extends React.Component {
             }}>
               <div className='btn-group' role='group' >
                 {exp.rights.launch ?
-                  <button
-                    onClick={() => {
-                      ExperimentExecutionService.instance.startNewExperiment(exp, false);
-                    }}
+                  /*<button
+                    onClick={() => this.openExperimentWorkbench(exp)}
                     disabled={this.isLaunchDisabled()}
                     className='nrp-btn btn-default'
                     title={this.launchButtonTitle} >
                     <AiFillExperiment className='icon' />Open
-                  </button>
+                </button>*/
+                  <Link to={'/experiment/' + exp.id} className="nrp-btn btn-default" disabled={this.isLaunchDisabled()}>
+                    <AiFillExperiment className='icon' />Open
+                  </Link>
                   : null}
 
                 {/*exp.rights.launch && config.brainProcesses > 1 ?
diff --git a/src/components/experiment-workbench/experiment-workbench.js b/src/components/experiment-workbench/experiment-workbench.js
index 771a93765d71e48d2f4a7183e9ad187e31b0199a..6b3a668aaaec41dcf246c8a62757bdc181179f30 100644
--- a/src/components/experiment-workbench/experiment-workbench.js
+++ b/src/components/experiment-workbench/experiment-workbench.js
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ export default class ExperimentWorkbench extends React.Component {
   }
 
   async componentDidMount() {
-    await this.updateSimulationInfo();
+    //await this.updateSimulationInfo();
     let experiments = await ExperimentStorageService.instance.getExperiments();
     this.experimentInfo = experiments.find(experiment => experiment.id === this.experimentID);
     console.info('ExperimentWorkbench - experimentInfo');
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ export default class ExperimentWorkbench extends React.Component {
     let experimentName = this.experimentInfo.configuration.name;
     this.setState({experimentName: experimentName});
 
-    let server = this.experimentInfo.joinableServers.find(
+    /*let server = this.experimentInfo.joinableServers.find(
       server => server.runningSimulation.creationUniqueID === this.state.simulationInfo.creationUniqueID);
     this.serverConfig = await ServerResourcesService.instance.getServerConfig(server.server);
     console.info('this.serverConfig');
@@ -78,15 +78,15 @@ export default class ExperimentWorkbench extends React.Component {
       (data) => {
         this.onStatusInfoROS(data);
       }
-    );
+    );*/
   }
 
-  async updateSimulationInfo() {
+  /*async updateSimulationInfo() {
     let simInfo = await RunningSimulationService.instance.getInfo(this.serverURL, this.simulationID);
     this.setState({simulationInfo: simInfo});
     console.info('SimulationView.updateSimulationInfo - simulationInfo');
     console.info(this.state.simulationInfo);
-  }
+  }*/
 
   onStatusInfoROS(message) {
     this.setState({
diff --git a/src/services/experiments/files/experiment-storage-service.js b/src/services/experiments/files/experiment-storage-service.js
index 36942d6c996b583b2dbb7d4d59b2cfd4aaea494f..60203559d889e593e4e69c8fb49251dc8a7599d1 100644
--- a/src/services/experiments/files/experiment-storage-service.js
+++ b/src/services/experiments/files/experiment-storage-service.js
@@ -74,7 +74,6 @@ class ExperimentStorageService extends HttpService {
     if (!this.experiments || forceUpdate) {
       try {
         let experimentList = await (await this.httpRequestGET(storageExperimentsURL)).json();
-        console.info(['ExperimentStorageService.getExperiments()', experimentList]);
         // filter out experiments with incomplete configuration (probably storage corruption)
         experimentList = experimentList.filter(experiment => experiment.configuration);
         this.sortExperiments(experimentList);