441462 - Categorise modules with colors to improve readability

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Socorro :: General, task)

Description

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

The Modules list is a bit hard to analyze at the moment.
It would be nice if the entries could be categorised, eg. as Firefox,
Windows, Flash plugin, GoogleDesktop  etc...
I assume most of these DLLs should be recognisable by Socorro.

The goal is to highlight plugins and make the unknown stuff stand out.
See the attached mockup.

The same color coding could also be used in the Modules column in the
Frames tab.

Comment 1

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Attachment: Mockup

Comment 2

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Interesting idea. Clearly we'd need to build up a database of known modules, though.

See also bug 423968, bug 439679 for some automated query ideas using the modules list.

Comment 3

[Ben Turner (not reading bugmail, use the needinfo flag!)]

(In reply to comment #1)
This reminds me of the "make Ted's eyes bleed less" bug... only it's my eyes that are suffering now! ;-)

Comment 4

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Yeah, I would go for a more muted color scheme. :)

Comment 5

[Laura Thomson :laura]

The hard part is the categorization, and we don't currently have this data in a good state to do this.  Leaving targeted to future.

Comment 6

[Lonnen :lonnen]

Interesting idea. If someone comes up with a way to do the categorization, please reopen or file new. We can figure out how to integrate it into the design.