308193 - "Most popular" Firefox extensions show up as "most popular" Thunderbird extensions

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Administration, defect)

Description

[peter Liepmann]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

The list of ¨most popular¨ Thunderbird extensions shouldn´t include extensions
that are exclusively for Firefox, for  example, 
1  ¨FlashGot, (4.78 stars, 372921 downloads)
Download one link, selected links or all the links of a page ...¨
2  ¨FoxyTunes, (4.47 stars, 12696 downloads)
Do you listen to Music while surfing the Web? Now you can control your favorite
media player without ever leaving the browser and more...¨
3¨Mouse Gestures, (4.75 stars, 10920 downloads)
Allows you to execute common commands (like page forward/backward, close tab, ¨

Etc. You get the idea.  When I´m looking for Thunderbird extensions, I don´t
need to look at   Firefox extensions, and vice versa.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Open https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/?application=thunderbird
2.  Look at the extensions.  Many or most are for Firefox.
3.

Actual Results:  
Most Popular Thunderbird Extensions

The most popular downloads over the last week.

   1. FlashGot, (4.78 stars, 372921 downloads)
      Download one link, selected links or all the links of a page at the
maximum speed with a single click, using the most popular external download
managers for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and FreeBSD (dozens currently supported
products, see http://www.flashgot.net for details). FlashGot offers also a Build
Gallery functionality which helps to synthetize full media galleries in one
page, from serial contents previously scattered on several pages, for easy and
fast "download all".
   2. Image Zoom, (4.34 stars, 14142 downloads)
      Adds zoom functionality for images
   3. FoxyTunes, (4.47 stars, 12696 downloads)
      Do you listen to Music while surfing the Web? Now you can control your
favorite media player without ever leaving the browser and more...
   4. Mouse Gestures, (4.75 stars, 10920 downloads)
      Allows you to execute common commands (like page forward/backward, close
tab, new tab) by mouse gestures drawn over the current webpage, without reaching
for the toolbar or the keyboard. You can also use click-only "rocker" gestures
which are even faster than drawn gestures.
   5. FoxClocks, (4.11 stars, 9962 downloads)
      FoxClocks displays multiple clocks in the application statusbar for any of
hundreds of cities around the world, using a database of time zone and daylight
saving information. FoxClocks also integrates with Google Earth (if you have it
installed), taking you to any location in the FoxClocks database.
   6. Mozilla Calendar, (2.54 stars, 7215 downloads)
      A calendar client based on iCal standard
   7. SwitchProxy Tool, (3.76 stars, 6842 downloads)
      SwitchProxy lets you manage and switch between multiple proxy
configurations quickly and easily. You can also use it as an anonymizer to
protect your computer from prying eyes. NOTE: In Firefox you can use the toolbar
element to save space
   8. DictionarySearch, (4.55 stars, 6420 downloads)
      Looks up a user selected word in an online dictionary
   9. SmoothWheel, (4.66 stars, 3744 downloads)
      Scrolls the document smoothly when scrolling the mouse wheel. Basically an
enhanced and configurable version of the built in smooth-scroll. Uses some
unique algorithms for smoothness and adaptive behaviour (scrolls fast or slow
according to the "intention" of the user). Allows to read long web pages easily.
You can actually read WHILE scrolling. Kind of like the credits at the end of a
movie, but controlled by scrolling the mouse wheel. Works with text-boxes and
drop-down boxes too. To configure in Mozilla, enter in the address bar:
chrome://smoothwheel/content/prefoverlay.xul . And just in case anyone uses it
for full page scroll, don't forget to set "Adaptive-Step" on the advanced
configuration panel to [DISABLED]. IMPORTANT: regardless of your rating, please
use the forum on the home page to discuss possible bugs.
  10. infoRSS, (4.02 stars, 3445 downloads)
      Displays RSS, Atom, HTML and NNTP feed in the status bar. Compatible with
podcasting RSS. It's also a good Gmail notifier. 

Expected Results:  
I don´t know what the most popular THUNDERBIRD extensions are, but that´s what I
exzpected.  If Mouse Gestures etc.  can be used with TB too, then an explanatory
note at the top of the listings would be all that´s needed.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

you are describing AMO, the addons website, not Thunderbird

Comment 2

[Basil Hashem [:baz]]

Peter, can you please explain where you are seeing the URL you refer to in the bug? When I used TB 2.0.0.9 and use the menu item "Tools->Addon" and then click the "Get Extensions" button, I'm referred to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/ which includes TB-related add-ons.

Thanks.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I'm thinking this can be closed. Reporter is gone and  https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/?application=thunderbird referenced in only one place on mozilla.org - at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/562?application=thunderbird&category=Message%2520Reading&numpg=10&id=562

very few places on internet reference AMO like https://addons.mozilla.org/themes/?application=thunderbird which AMO lists as "Firefox Add-ons"

Comment 6

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

Closing per comment 4. If you feel the problem persists (even with a different URL) please reopen or file a new bug. Thanks!

Comment 7

[Onno Ekker [:nONoNonO UTC+1]]

This is still valid for the new URL for most popular Thunderbird extensions:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/browse/type:1/cat:all?sort=popular

Most popular addons shows Harley Davidson Theme, while that isn't even installable in Thunderbird (it's commented out in install.rdf).

FoxyTunes, FlashGot, DownThemAll are still "most popular", probably based on the number of downloads. Of these three, only DownThemAll has public stats, and it shows about 6000 Thunderbird users.

Maybe things get better with installTrigger and the new Add-ons manager, where it is possible to download the extension from Thundebird. If you can detect to which application an extension is being installed, you can calculate popularity based on installs per application instead of total downloads...