Closed Bug 1041170 Opened 10 years ago Closed 10 years ago

Add-on Manager should provide a way to open in-content preferences tab for each add-on

Categories

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Add-ons Manager
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 662004

People

(Reporter: quicksaver, Unassigned)

Details

One of the goals I try to follow in all my add-ons is to keep their preferences dialogs as similar as possible to firefox's native options dialog, so they're more intuitive to use by the user. (Also, the huge amount of preferences in some of them make the in-line preferences system kind of unusable).

I think it would be good to provide a way for the "options" button of each add-on in the add-on manager to open its in-content preferences tab if provided (somehow), rather than its own preferences dialog window, to allow add-ons to keep their preferences dialogs consistent with the native ones.
Component: Preferences → Add-ons Manager
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
Probably a better block, please re-block if anyone disagrees.
Blocks: ship-incontent-prefs
No longer blocks: 718011
This already exists: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Install_Manifests#Open_Options_in_New_Tab_
No longer blocks: ship-incontent-prefs
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
I wasn't aware of it, I'm sorry about that. And thanks for the link!
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