222183 - export the list of extensions

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 295043

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, enhancement)

Description

[B.J. Herbison]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1

It would be nice to be able to select or export the list of added extensions. 
Three potential uses:  1) Mailing the list to a friend ("you might want to
install these.").  2) Bug reports ("Firebird crashes when I do
shift-right-alt-4.  I have these extensions installed.").  3) Save the list
before uninstalling/reinstalling to help remember which extensions to add back
later.

Also, when an extension is selected, it would be nice to be able to select the
text shown in the lower box (the name and description of the extension).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Tools/Options.../Extensions
2. Try to select the whole list of options and copy the text.
3. Try to select the text in the lower box.

Actual Results:  
Nothing.

Expected Results:  
Allow the list to be selected, allow the text to be selected.

Comment 1

[B.J. Herbison]

This is related to 210228 ("Make extension list sorted (Tools | Options |
Extensions)")-- it would be nice to have the exported list sorted.

Comment 2

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

(ok, I know it's old)

There are InfoLister and ListZilla extensions that do exactly that, and I think
that adding this to the Firefox itself is going to be wontfixed.

For the second part, see also bug 246400.

Comment 3

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

I suggest duping this against bug 295043 as that is about Inport/Export.

Comment 4

[Will Budreau]

Bug 295043 is a functional (i.e. downloadable?) list of the installed extensions
for quicker re-installation, not necessarily an quickly readable list for
information and debugging purposes.

Comment 5

[Philip Withnall (unavailable)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> (ok, I know it's old)
> 
> There are InfoLister and ListZilla extensions that do exactly that, and I think
> that adding this to the Firefox itself is going to be wontfixed.
> 
> For the second part, see also bug 246400.

I would agree with WONTFIX.

Comment 6

[Jens Bannmann]

Duping as suggested in comment 3.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 295043 ***