1496370 - [ADD-ONS] Add an option to hide add-ons items in the right mouse click menu

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, enhancement)

Description

[Artem S. Tashkinov]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0

Steps to reproduce:

I'm not sure whether add-ons are allowed to hide the right mouse click menu entries but it's getting crowded here and makes the Firefox experience worse.

Please add a per add-on option to hide add-ons right mouse click menu entries.

Comment 1

[Artem S. Tashkinov]

Attachment: right-click-menu.png

Comment 2

[Paul_B]

Hi,
Thank you for taking the time to add this report and for your suggestion. I'll set it as an enhancement proposal and assign it to the proper component (Toolkit-Add-ons Manager), where your suggestion can be better evaluated and decided upon.

Comment 3

[Mike Conca [:mconca]]

Arten, can you please explain in greater detail what you are asking for.  It seems like you are asking for a WebExtensions API that would allow an extension to hide default context menus (right-mouse click entries)?  Or maybe the context menus from other extensions?  Or are you asking to have a user-interface ability to do this, perhaps from the Options menu?

Additional information on exactly what you are looking for, and a few examples, would be helpful.  Thanks.

Comment 4

[Artem S. Tashkinov]

Attachment: right-mouse-click.png

I really don't understand what to add.

Right now I already see four entries in my right mouse click menu and I want to be able to see none.

How it's done you know better. However for each of installed add-on in add-ons I'd like to see an option, "Omit entries in the right mouse click menu" or something like that.

Comment 5

[Mike Conca [:mconca]]

This feature was discussed and ultimately rejected. The attached screenshots did not look unreasonable from a UX perspective, and it is hard to draw the line at context menus alone. For example, should Firefox also provide user controls to show/hide an extension's page action? Browser action? Sidebar? Or maybe even enable/disable their ability to modify themes? Providing user controls to enable/disable individual UI elements of an extension might make sense in isolation, but it doesn't scale very well.

If an extension is providing a context menu that isn't valuable, users can uninstall the extension or contact the extension developer to see if they are willing/able to provide an option to enable/disable the context menu from within the extension options.