1660337 - Don't show me in extension recommendations that are already installed

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Roman Deev]

Attachment: Recomedations.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.120 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Don't show me in extension recommendations that are already installed.

Actual results:

I have many extensions installed and because of this I am offered extensions that are already installed. Because of this, recommendations are useless to me. I want to learn about new extensions for me, not look at already installed!))

Expected results:

Add the possibility to disable the display of already installed extensions

Comment 1

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

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Comment 2

[Rob Wu [:robwu]]

We do already hide add-ons that you have installed. Where did you get your version of HTTPS Everywhere?

There are two HTTPS Everywhere add-ons circulating:

• the recommended one from AMO, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/https-everywhere/
• and the self-hosted one from https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere (not part of the Recommended Extensions program).

If you installed the self-hosted one from eff.org, then you haven't installed the recommended add-on from Firefox's perspective, and therefore the add-on shows up in the recommendations.

Comment 3

[Roman Deev]

(In reply to Rob Wu [:robwu] from comment #2)

We do already hide add-ons that you have installed. Where did you get your version of HTTPS Everywhere?

There are two HTTPS Everywhere add-ons circulating:

• the recommended one from AMO, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/https-everywhere/
• and the self-hosted one from https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere (not part of the Recommended Extensions program).

If you installed the self-hosted one from eff.org, then you haven't installed the recommended add-on from Firefox's perspective, and therefore the add-on shows up in the recommendations.

All add-ons are installed from AMO

Comment 4

[Rob Wu [:robwu]]

I see. Your screenshot contains a "Manage" button, which shows that the add-on was indeed recognized as installed.

Did you inadvertently opt out of personalized recommendations? When that happens, the add-on recommender won't know anything about installed extensions, and there is certainly no way for it to recommend other extensions.

If you are looking for more add-ons besides the few recommended ones, have you tried to browse more add-ons at https://addons.mozilla.org ?

Comment 5

[Roman Deev]

Did you inadvertently opt out of personalized recommendations?

No. All the checkboxes are active.

If you are looking for more add-ons besides the few recommended ones, have you tried to browse more add-ons at https://addons.mozilla.org ?

Of course. But it's strange that the built-in function in the browser isn't working.

Comment 6

[Rob Wu [:robwu]]

The recommendations are based on telemetry data. Since this data is shared relatively infrequently, the recommendations are not immediately updated when an add-on is installed. I would expect the recommendations to catch up within a few days though.

Is the issue still showing up?

Comment 7

[Roman Deev]

These extensions have been recommended for several weeks

Comment 8

[Stuart Colville [:muffinresearch]]

Thanks for reporting the issue.

This is currently occurring because there's an ongoing operational issue which is why you're seeing fallback data. We're aware of it and it's being actively worked on. We hope to have it fixed in the not too distant future. Once it's fixed we'll provide an update here.