553642 - Need a better way to indicate more details of the installed addon

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Tony Chung [:tchung]]

It's not obvious that double clicking the installed addon will navigate to the more details view. There needs to be some indication like "More details button", or make the existing ""Show more" link perhaps show the details of the addons.  either way, double clicking it is not enough; this will get hidden.

Repro:
1) install addons branch build: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.3a4pre) Gecko/20100319 Minefield/3.7a4pre
2) open addons manager
3) install addon
4) Verify the Features pane, there is no obvious indication on how to see more details of that addon.   User has to double click to open the details pane, but we need to note that or have a button or something to show that.   The "Show more" link doesnt do it either.

Expected:
- Indication to get to more details on the page

Actual:
- no obvious way outside of double-clicking the addon.

Comment 1

[John Ford [:jhford] CET/CEST Berlin Time]

This is a really annoying issue!

When I tried to access the options button for one of my extensions, I couldn't find it at all in the new addons manager.  I looked at the list of extensions trying to find out how to access this.  There is no indication whatsoever that tells me to either double clicking or right clicking the extension would show me more information. This interface really suggests that everything should be done with a single mouse click so I didn't even think to right click or double click.

A couple things could have prevented this experience.  One is a 'More Information' button near the 'remove' and 'disable' buttons.  Another would be something to hint that you double click for more info, like a message at the top of the list saying 'double click extension for more information'.

It is also somewhat confusing that there are two different drill-down points (show more) and double clicking.  Doubly confusing is that the size of the addon is only shown in 'show more' but and not the more detailed view.

Otherwise, this new addons manager is awesome!

Comment 2

[BMO Automation]

Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.