562246 - Sorting panes of the addons manager based on their most usage

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.3a5pre) Gecko/20100415 Minefield/3.7a5pre (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

The new Add-ons Manager changes the ordering of the panes to something which is probably not the best solution. IMO we should continue to use the same order as we have in the old manager and show the panes in the order of their most usage. 

That would mean: Get Addons, Extensions, Themes, Plugins, Search Engines, Languages, and Installation/Update

Asking for ux feedback.

Comment 1

[Blair McBride [:Unfocused] (UNAVAILABLE)]

FWIW, if it were ordered by most-used, Extensions would go first (followed by the Update panes), not Get Addons - but I'm pretty sure we don't want that.

Comment 2

[Blair McBride [:Unfocused] (UNAVAILABLE)]

To clarify: I'm not necessarily against re-ordering the categories, but I do think frequency of use isn't enough to determine their order.

Also, Search Results needs to be in there somewhere.

Comment 3

[BMO Automation]

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