308837 - sort order includes initial spaces, allowing extensions to get top billing

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

When viewing extensions alphabetically some extensions pop to the top. Paid
placements? Favoritism? No, it appears the extension name has initial spaces,
and the web site includes them in its sort order.

To forestall a "space wars" scenario initial spaces should be stripped before
being added to the DB or otherwise not counted in the sort order.

Filing confidential just in case these are accidents, but it's fairly obvious.

Comment 1

[Chris Thomas (CTho) [formerly [e-mail] [e-mail]]]

Attachment: trim the name

Comment 2

[alanjstr]

I wouldn't call this security sensitive.  

Comment 3

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

ok, no it's not really a security issue. Just didnt know how quickly this would
get fixed and didn't want lots of people jumping on the bandwagon. I don't know
if name changes have to go through the review queue, general knowledge could
create a gold-rush of people trying to get better placement.

But I'm fine if you want to remove the flag. Sounds like it was simple to fix
anyway.

Comment 4

[Chris Thomas (CTho) [formerly [e-mail] [e-mail]]]

Fixed, pushed to prod, so clearing security flag