272862 - To at least make possibe a way to better organise themes/extensions, rather than extensions cluttering up the TOOLS dropdown.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 272860

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Kris Silver]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

This is a simple request, for AT LEAST, a way to organise all extensions in the
OPTIONS area, along with themes.  I have around 10 extensions and many clutter
up your TOOLS drop down list, making it very difficult to find the simple
actions you expect in TOOLS.  Not only this but the order is changed,
TOOLS>OPTIONS has now been moved to appear as the last but one in the drop down,
which is very annoying in itself and makes the entire list look cluttered,
confusing, and generally not attractive, or how it should look.  

There needs to be AT LEAST an extension to allow you to organise your extensions
in various ways, one of which to add Themes & Extensions into OPTIONS (makes
sense and fits perfectly), then upon clicking on Themes or Extensions, all
themes and extensions appear to the right in the box, rather than all over
Firefox.  This has the added benefit of removing not only Themes & Extensions
from the drop down, which many people dont want, but also all the extensions
that clutter up the basic, easy to navigate organisation of Firefox.  Also,
another benefit of adding Themes & Extensions to OPTIONS, or at bare minimum
allowing for that to be possible somehow (this is supposed to be instantly
customizable) is that when there are no extensions or themes installed, upon
users browsing the OPTIONS area, as they often do, they will more likely realise
and learn of the power and OPTIONS extensions and themes hold.  A brief picture
and text outline and description of themes upon clicking themes, and extensions
upon going into extensions, could then be displayed on the right.  This would
show what options are really possible, and explain to them why the OPTIONS area
is so simplistic to begin with, and what you can do to add options effectively
(extensions) and themes.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 272860 ***

Comment 2

[Mike Kowalski]

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