565513 - (cuts-addons) [meta] Paper cuts: Add-ons

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Alex Limi (:limi) — Firefox UX Team]

(This is a meta bug used to group the focus issues from the Paper Cuts project)

Issues specifically related to the add-ons and plug-in experience.

Comment 1

[Willy_ Foo_Foo]

This should be also a part of this

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741198

As it plays a major part in UX

Comment 2

[Willy_ Foo_Foo]

siddhartha dugar
creator of the extension for that exact purpose
has no problem merging the extension/addon in FF
he would love to help creating a patch(& how to do that)

Comment 3

[Graham Perrin]

<https://github.com/mozilla/addons-server/>
<https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/>

Vaguely related, whilst the new front end has not gone live: 

Terse ratings at addons.mozilla.org (AMO)
<https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/428#issuecomment-328345686> under 
User Profiles (Use Cases) · Issue #428 · mozilla/multi-account-containers

Comment 4

[Robert AB]

So much control over the browser was lost in 2017 with introduction of WebExtensions.
We need session management API and some related projects to be completed (some bugs are marked as closed):

• Bug 1427928 (!!, meta) + Bug 1413525 (!), Bug 1378651 (!), Bug 1381922 (!),
• Bug 1404626 (many users have now 1080p monitors, some even 4K) + Bug 1373490,
• Bug 1528604 (!) + Bug 1528598 (!, meta) + Bug 1235231 (!),
• Bug 1462813 (meta) + Bug 1450382 (!) + Bug 1475240 (!) + Bug 1553260 (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1553260#c19)
• Bug 1226546 (meta) + Bug 1333837 (meta) + Bug 1320585 + Bug 1215064

Comment 5

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

(Plugin support was deprecated in Firefox 85.)