Open Bug 1840638 Opened 1 year ago Updated 1 year ago

Enable hyperlinks for URLs in add-ons descriptions

Categories

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

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Add-ons Manager
Version:
Firefox 114
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

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Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: nekohayo, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/114.0

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Install an add-on that has some URLs within its description, like the two URLs you can see in this one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/messenger-dark-theme/
  2. Go to about:addons and click on that add-on to view its details

Actual results:

The URLs are shown in plaintext, but not automatically hyperlinked (unlike on the addons Mozilla website), so they are not clickable.

Expected results:

URLs should be autodetected and made clickable hyperlinks.

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Toolkit::Add-ons Manager' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Component: Untriaged → Add-ons Manager
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
Priority: -- → P5

How do we mitigate the concern of spam or malicious links?

Well, in the web directory interface (such as the link above), URLs already are rendered as hyperlinks, so basically my suggestion here was to harmonize the built-in interface's rendering with the web directory (Mozilla's Add-Ons website); if it's fine to have on the web version, why not have it in the built-in version too? And if someone wanted to have spammy/phishy hyperlinks, they could just as well put them in the metadata fields instead of the description, so I'm not sure that preventing automatic hyperlink rendering in the description would be much of a protection anyway.

Severity: -- → N/A
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