244283 - need more discoverability of extensions

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 214269

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, enhancement)

Description

[Ilia M]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

Firefox needs better capability for discovering new extensions.  The extensions
webpage, while good, still requires someone to actually go there and actively
seek out stuff they don't know existed.

I think it may be a very good idea to put in some kind of an "optional
components" choice right when the browser is installed.  Basically take the most
used plugins, break them down into *simple to understand* categories, and allow
the user a choice of installing those extensions right away.  Put a similar
choice into the extension browser gui.

The reasoning for this: People simply don't know about some very useful
extensions as they haven't invested the time to read the whole plugins page
(it's large).  I have a friend who's very computer literate (he runs linux
full-time), and he just didn't know about some very useful plugins (adblock,
flash-click-to-view, tabbrowser extension).

The only drawback is that this would favor some extensions over others, but I
believe this is important in the goal of making Firefox better than the rest! 
After highlighting some of the arguably-best extensions, the rest would become
more visible as well - the user will understand his or her choices.

(Final note: to implement this correctly, Firefox will need the ability to
install more than one extensions at a time w/o restarting.)

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

See bug 214269

Comment 2

[alanjstr]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 214269 ***