1560834 - [about:addons] Install Updates button missing from Available Updates when automatic updates disabled

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect, P3)

Description

[Kestrel]

Attachment: Comparison between old and new about:addons with missing Install Updates button

STR:

1. Disable Update Add-ons Automatically.
2. Have older versions of extensions installed.
3. Check for Updates.
4. Click on Available Updates category.

The Install Updates button that allowed all listed updates to be installed at the click of a button is no longer available in the new HTML about:addons. Now the user has to update each extension manually by opening each menu and clicking Update. This may be a very tedious and time consuming process for users with many addons.

Comment 3

[Rob Wu [:robwu]]

(fixing up dependencies, I'll let Mark triage this bug).

The add-on card does not support a checkbox UI. So there is no straightforward way for the user to selectively include/exclude an add-on in the update list.

Comment 4

[wavexx]

Wontfix? Installing updates manually is quite cumbersome now.

I disabled automatic updates due to frequent regressions and breakages of several addons: it'd rather check and review manually the changes before installing each update.

Please reconsider.

Comment 5

[Sören Hentzschel]

Wontfix? Installing updates manually is quite cumbersome now.

Wontfix for Firefox 68 doesn't mean that it won't be fixed in Firefox 69 (or later). Firefox 68 will be released in five days and the first RC is already built. No patch is written yet and it has to be tested, so it's not really possible to fix it in time for Firefox 68. I don't think that this issue severe enough to justify a delay of Firefox 68 - especially since updating add-ons is still possible, it's "only" an annoyance.

Comment 6

[Soothsayer]

In the meantime, you can disable the new addons page by toggling the following preference in about:config

extensions.htmlaboutaddons.enabled

Comment 7

[Liz Henry (:lizzard) (relman/hg->git project)]

Happy to take a patch for 70 or beyond.
Since we are getting close to the end of the 69 beta cycle and this is set to P3, I'm marking it fix-optional for 69 and 70 to remove it from weekly triage.

Comment 9

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The severity field for this bug is relatively low, S3. However, the bug has 14 votes.
:robwu, could you consider increasing the bug severity?

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