1504396 - Can't search installed addons

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 868705

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[lilydjwg]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:65.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/65.0

Steps to reproduce:

* install a few addons
* try to find a specific one in about:addons


Actual results:

The searchbox, Ctrl-F, / searches amo.


Expected results:

There should be at least one way to search installed addons.

I have 44 installed addons now and it's very hard to find a specific one with keywords. I know they are alphabetically sorted but I don't always remember the full name.

Comment 1

[lilydjwg]

What's more, I can't search the description and options of an addon because Ctrl-F doesn't bring up the usual search bar.

Comment 3

[Gingerbread Man]

(In reply to lilydjwg from comment #1)
> What's more, I can't search the description and options of an addon because
> Ctrl-F doesn't bring up the usual search bar.

Bug 1499500

Comment 4

[Graham Perrin]

Yeah, many extensions here, I detest Firefox not finding my add-ons. 

> Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE

That's unfortunate. 

I wondered whether recently released Addon Manager Fix Micro (for Waterfox) <https://github.com/Ulf3000/addon_manager_fix_micro/> would be partially effective with Firefox … at least, the filtering (screen shot: <https://imgur.com/l3iPp1Q>). 

Unfortunately not. Whilst (with some trickery) the extension can be installed, it causes about:addons to become unusable. Worked around by safe mode removal of the extension.

Comment 5

[Graham Perrin]

… sorry, that comment was intended for 1499500. I'll repost there.