546018 - Allow arranging extensions in folders, enable/disable whole folders

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, enhancement)

Description

[Laxminarayan G Kamath A]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100105 Firefox/3.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100105 Firefox/3.6

From my usage experience, I always have a set of extensions disabled, which  occasionally need to enable all at once. Example : Two sets that I come across often that I need to switch on for only few pages/occasions are 

1) Developer/tweaking extensions 
2) Indic related extensions

The reason I need to do that are those extensions are sometimes necessary, but otherwise hog the cpu . ( I disable yesscript, webdeveloper toolbar, and a couple others I cant remember, the SunSpider js benchmark tool shows a drop from 12 seconds to 4 seconds) loadinng of other pages are also faster.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1) run sunspider js benchmark utility, note time taken
1) install a bunch of developer/tweaking extensions including web-developer toolbar, yesscript(dont forget to add a bunch of rules), etc.. 
2) run sunspider js benchmark utility again.


Expected Results:

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of/related to bug 259057 comment 5?

Comment 2

[Laxminarayan G Kamath A]

No. Not a duplicate  of #259057 . Thats about being able to select multiple extensions/themes/etc and disabling/enabling/updating them. The selection needs to be done every time.

In this proposal. the extensions/themes/etc are arranged into folders, thus making the grouping permanent. Making grouping permanant can reduce the number of clicks needed to disable/enable all at once.

Also, I believe other people will find other uses for being able to group extensions/themes/etc into folders.

Comment 3

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Not going to go this complex, I don't think any but power users really have a need for this. Prime extension material.