273642 - Cannot show All extensions at the same time

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

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

Description

[alanjstr]

The website insists I pick a version of Firefox, otherwise it will auto-detect
and filter it for me.  I want to see all Tabbed Browser extensions, whether they
are compatible or not, at the same time.  

SELECT DISTINCT t_main.Name
FROM t_main
INNER JOIN t_categoryxref ON t_main.id = t_categoryxref.id
INNER JOIN t_categories ON t_categoryxref.categoryid = t_categories.categoryid
WHERE t_categories.CatName = 'Tabbed Browsing'

Even though we auto-detect, we should list everything from t_Applications.  

There are several reasons, such as listing extensions that should be re-tested
to have their maxVer raised or to see whether someone has already created an
extension for something.

This is a bug, not an enhancement request.  It will be fixed in the future.

To repeat:  visit
https://update.mozilla.org/extensions/showlist.php?category=Tabbed%20Browsing

Actual results:
8 extensions

Expected results:
18 extensions

Comment 1

[Wolf [:wolf]]

This is not a bug, its by design, the cases you present here do not represent a
use-case for the majority of people who'd use Update. Therefore, this
enhancement request is one that does not belong in the application, now or in
the future.
People looking for possibly out-dated extensions to raise versions are not
harmed by version-filtering.
People accidentally ending up on all versions when they're the average end-user
who doesn't understand application versioning and extension compatibility and
downloading something that's incompatible would be harmed by this change.

Comment 2

[alanjstr]

Did you ever notice that thing called install.rdf that prevents you from
installing something incompatible?  I'm not asking if the whole world wants to
be able to do this.

Comment 3

[Wolf [:wolf]]

Being sarcastic doesn't help you. Just because install.rdf would block, doesn't
mean it wasn't bad user-experience to have them end up with somethinig that gets
blocked. Users having a bad experience > A need to fix a "bug" for a low # of
extension authors ot site editors.

Features that have little practical use for 95% of users have no place in the
site UI, it makes the UI cluttered and more likely for confusion. This concept
isn't new, it's taken from Firefox's design principles, things that most users
don't need, don't belong in the site UI, and hidden options are a bad idea as
well, because theyre not discoverable, add bloat and are likely to get easily
broken and not fixed.

Comment 4

[alanjstr]

How the hell do you get clutter from adding a single entry "ALL" to a dropdown?

Comment 5

[Wolf [:wolf]]

A single entry that 95% of people don't need, is still an entry 95% of people
don't need. It doesn't matter if it's 1 item or 10. 10, 1 item bugs like this,
and you end up with that situation, but each one seemed ok at the time because
it was just a "single entry".