286590 - quickly disable all extensions without entering safe mode

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, enhancement)

Description

[Will Budreau]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

When debugging a problem, it would be helpfulto quickly disable all extensions,
and then re-enable them one by one. Currently, the only options are safe mode
(which leaves all extensions disabled) or disabling one by one by hand.

Context menu option to "Disable All" from the Extensions window would be helpful.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Chris Heath]

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6)
Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
> Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6)
Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
> 
> When debugging a problem, it would be helpfulto quickly disable all extensions,
> and then re-enable them one by one. Currently, the only options are safe mode
> (which leaves all extensions disabled) or disabling one by one by hand.
> 
> Context menu option to "Disable All" from the Extensions window would be helpful.
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:

This is a great idea and would greatly help me track down bugs.

I'm all for something like this.  How feasable is it though?
--Chris

Comment 2

[Elmar Ludwig]

-> Extension Manager

Comment 3

[Will Budreau]

Great, I dup-ed myself. Should I stop gerunding in my bug names?

I'm going to put this as blocker on my other bug, although I woudl like to point
out that "enable all" is a far less interesting case than "disable all" if one
of these does end up getting merged to the other.

Rephrasing slightly

Comment 4

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

I don't see how it is different from bug 265154, but not I'm not marking this a
dupe of that since you seem to think otherwise. Confirming instead, since
there's no point in keeping this unco.

Comment 5

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Fixed by bug 304403.