It's hard to reorder items in the extension menu
Categories
(WebExtensions :: General, enhancement, P3)
Tracking
(firefox113 ?, firefox114 affected, firefox115 affected)
People
(Reporter: lilydjwg, Unassigned)
References
(Blocks 1 open bug)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/114.0
Steps to reproduce:
- install many excellent and useful extensions
- try to reorder them in the extension menu so that frequently used ones are easier to find
Actual results:
It takes two clicks and one intervened move to only move an item up / down once, i.e. it would take 112 clicks and 56 moves to the first item to the last for me.
Expected results:
Firefox should provide a simple and intuitive way to move these items, e.g. drag and drop like bookmarks.
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Comment 1•1 year ago
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The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Widget: Gtk' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.
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Updated•1 year ago
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Updated•1 year ago
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Comment 2•1 year ago
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Hello,
I checked the reorder function on the latest Nightly (115.0a1/20230508214159) and Beta (114.0b1/20230508175934) under Windows 10 x64 and macOS 11.3.1 and indeed once many extensions are installed it becomes cumbersome to move them up or down the list to achieve the desired order.
I also checked the latest available Release (112.0.2/20230424110519) on the same platforms as well, however the patch for the reorder functionality has not yet landed in this version.
All in all, what you are proposing is an enhancement and I will mark the report accordingly. The reorder function works as expected though, even if it can be further enhanced to allow for easier reordering of extensions.
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Comment 3•1 year ago
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First thing first: while we don't expect most users to reorder extensions all the time, we have plans to make this feature better. Drag and drop does not work for all users, hence why we went with the current approach now, which we'll augment later.
I expected to be able to search the menu, but that bug was closed in favor of ordering. Maybe you could come up a better solution. There are users with a lot of extensions.
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Comment 6•1 year ago
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As I said in my bug 1832759, the user interface should not only become better, it should also be unified with what we already have and what users are used to, which means it should become drag-and-drop in the same way as all other toolbar and overflow menu items,
and it should also be part of "Customize toolbar" feature (or allow direct drag-and-drop without entering a special mode in the same way as the bookmarks menu). After all, one places and moves extension icons in the toolbar also with "Customize toolbar" and drag-and-drop, so this should work in the same way for the extension menu (and for moving extension icons between the extension menu and the toolbar,
in the same way extension icons were moved between the overflow menu and the toolbar before the extension menu was introduced).
The average user does not know and does not care about the difference between a native firefox toolbar icon like "print" or "history" and an extension icon, and he should not be forced to know the difference. So both kinds of icons should behave in the same way and should be manipulated in the same way.
I've waited too long and have made a web page to reorder my extensions by modifying the data directly. You can use it here https://reorder-extensions.vercel.app/ and the source code is here: https://github.com/lilydjwg/reorder-extensions.
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