295059 - EM should show number of installed extensions

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, enhancement)

Description

[Przemyslaw Bialik]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050521 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050521 Firefox/1.0+

Extension Manager should show number of installed extensions:
a - when there are no extensions installed EM window title would be "Extensions
[0]" or just "Extensions"
b - when there are extensions installed change EM window title to "Extensions
[i]" or even more informative "Extensions [e/i]" where e is the number of
enabled extensions and n is the number of installed extensions; i-e = number of
disabled extensions.

The similar enhancement might be also applied to theme manager.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install extension

Actual Results:  
EM does not show number of installed extensions

Expected Results:  
EM shows number of installed extensions

Comment 1

[Chris Blore]

Could not find a dupe for this bug and I think it could be quite useful,
particularly for those with many extensions/themes installed.

->NEW

Comment 2

[Rastignac]

The extension EMbuttons 1.1.3 does this. EMbuttons has many good ideas that
should be built-in FireFox. IMHO, EMbuttons is a must-have extension. FireFox
should take notice and try to do the same.

Comment 3

[Przemyslaw Bialik]

(In reply to comment #2)
I didn't mentioned EMbuttons because they do not work on trunk builds (to the
point that EM/TM would not load but no wonder because of recent EM changes) and
extension shouldn't be needed for such simple feature.

Comment 4

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

Attachment: patch in progress

This patch is just to keep track of this... it is a simple patch but there are
a few patches ahead of it that are waiting for 1.1a to be released in order to
land so no reviews yet. This will display only the title without [#] when there
are no extensions installed and it updates when installing and uninstalling.

Also, I'm not entirely convinced that placing a number in the window title like
"Extensions [2]" is the way to go. Perhaps something like "Extensions [26
installed] would prevent some users - albeit small - from scratching their
heads wondering what the number signifies.

Comment 5

[Przemyslaw Bialik]

Thanks, tested positively on manually patched Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows
NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050524 Firefox/1.0+ :)

Tweak it to count only 'really installed' extensions ?
What do you think about showing the number of enabled extensions out of all
installed [e/i] (disabled ones does not 'count' really) ? or maybe wait for
simpler patch to be checked in first and later discuss enhancing it ;)

Comment 6

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

I was considering something like (12 total) or (12 total, 3 disabled) where the
disabled count is only shown when there are disabled extensions... it seems a
little more intuitive that way since I tend to think they are all enabled unless
I am told otherwise but not everyone thinks the same way. This would also remove
the ambiguity between installed vs. the ones to be installed or uninstalled in
that they are just another item included in the total. I am open to other
formats as long as they don't add complexity or aren't intuitive.

I'd prefer to iron out the details for this one patch since it is going to be
extremely simple in just about any form it takes and it will have a better
chance of being review / approved if the details are ironed out beforehand since
this bug - at least IMO - is not as important as many of the other bugs.

Comment 7

[John Woods]

Attachment: wrong bug

I realize ecomstation is more to blame here than the EM. I will bug them about it too.

Comment 9

[Blair McBride [:Unfocused] (UNAVAILABLE)]

Most people have few enough add-ons that they can easily count them (average is 5, see source link below). As such, this would be more appropriate for an extension to add.

Source: https://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2011/06/21/firefox-4-add-on-users/