258580 - Add Categories to extension detail page

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Public Pages, enhancement)

Description

[TuringT]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

It's impossible to know to which category any given extension belongs. In which
category is <a
href="http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=139&vid=447">Image
Zoom</a>?

This makes very difficult to find again an extension that some months ago I
found interesting. I think that this is not a simple enhancement; is a real
usability bug (specially combined with bug <a
href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=247810">247810</a>). The
process to find a known extension is severely broken.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. I find an extension that I like, for example Image Zoom.
2. Some weeks later, I install Firefox on a new machine.
3. I want to add that useful extension. I remember it was named something about
"images".
4. There is not alphabetical index, nor a search box.
5. Was that extension under the "Navigation" category? or in "Miscellaneous"?
Surely is not in "Appearance", is it?
Actual Results:  
I couldn't find an extension that I know that exists, even if I know it's name.

Expected Results:  
Show the category in which "Image zoom" is located.

Comment 1

[Wolf [:wolf]]

Usability bug or not, this is a feature request. Confirming :-)

BTW, for future reference, bugzilla automatically makes links out of bug #s and
URLs. So don't try to put in html. Just Bug 247810 :-)

Comment 2

[Wolf [:wolf]]

This makes the moreinfo.php description at the top look something like this...

"A simple, straightforward Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client. (Categories: Chat)"

If there's more than 1, it'll be a comma seperated list.. 
Like this: (Categories: Appearance, Humor)

This'll appear in update-beta soon. :-) Once I land my development changes.

Comment 3

[Wolf [:wolf]]

Bulk Moving Web Site bugs to new component.
(Filter: massumowebsitespam)

Comment 4

[alanjstr]

Mass-resolving bugs that have been fixed on trunk.

Comment 5

[Wolf [:wolf]]

Sorry for the bugspam, reopening bugs wrongly marked as resolved.