1367559 - System add-ons aren't easily distinguishable from non-system add-ons

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1367800

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[ExE Boss]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:53.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/53.0
Build ID: 20170518000419

Steps to reproduce:

Go to 'about:addons' and look at a system add-on's 'More' page (ex. Shield Recipe Client).


Actual results:

There is no easy way to distinguish a system add-on from a non-system add-on.


Expected results:

An easy way to tell that the add-on is a system add-on should be available. (ex. a Mozilla logo next to the add-on name, etc.)

Comment 1

[Robert Helmer [:rhelmer]]

(In reply to ExE Boss from comment #0)
> User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:53.0)
> Gecko/20100101 Firefox/53.0
> Build ID: 20170518000419
> 
> Steps to reproduce:
> 
> Go to 'about:addons' and look at a system add-on's 'More' page (ex. Shield
> Recipe Client).
> 
> 
> Actual results:
> 
> There is no easy way to distinguish a system add-on from a non-system add-on.
> 
> 
> Expected results:
> 
> An easy way to tell that the add-on is a system add-on should be available.
> (ex. a Mozilla logo next to the add-on name, etc.)

System add-ons should not be showing up in `about:addons`... did you do anything special to get them to show up there?

Comment 2

[ExE Boss]

Attachment: Shield Recipe Client in Add-ons Manager

(In reply to Robert Helmer [:rhelmer] from comment #1)
> (In reply to ExE Boss from comment #0)
> > User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:53.0)
> > Gecko/20100101 Firefox/53.0
> > Build ID: 20170518000419
> > 
> > Steps to reproduce:
> > 
> > Go to `about:addons` and look at a system add-on’s ‘More’ page (ex. Shield
> > Recipe Client).
> > 
> > 
> > Actual results:
> > 
> > There is no easy way to distinguish a system add-on from a non-system add-on.
> > 
> > 
> > Expected results:
> > 
> > An easy way to tell that the add-on is a system add-on should be available.
> > (ex. a Mozilla logo next to the add-on name, etc.)
> 
> System add-ons should not be showing up in `about:addons`... did you do
> anything special to get them to show up there?

I don’t know how it showed up there there, but it did.
After reloading the page, it disappeared but I got a screenshot, which I’m adding as an attachment.

I should probably mention that to get that screenshot I clicked on the ‘More’ page and I don’t know how to get the addon to show up again in `about:addons` and I lost the tab which had the system add-on’s page in it’s history.

Comment 3

[Robert Helmer [:rhelmer]]

Thanks! I have a patch for this in bug 1367800, I am going to dupe this one there.