595847 - Cannot choose order of items in Add-ons Manager

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Anthony Lieuallen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:2.0b5) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b5

Greasemonkey is trying its hardest to integrate properly with the new Add-ons Manager API in Firefox 4.  To date, we've followed the SlipperyMonkey (http://www.oxymoronical.com/blog/2010/07/How-to-extend-the-new-Add-ons-Manager) example.

Today, in 4.0b5, it appears to be impossible to choose the order of the items in the manager.  This is occasionally very important for user scripts -- one may change the page in a way that breaks the other, but not vice versa.

There appears to be no way in the published interface to control which order the items display in: they are always forced into an alphabetical-by-name order.  This breaks Greasemonkey.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Needed for search engine integration too

Comment 2

[Blair McBride [:Unfocused] (UNAVAILABLE)]

Quentin is working on this as part of bug 335781.

Comment 3

[Anthony Lieuallen]

Since reporting this, we've worked around this by re-implementing the sort bar, which was removed in one of the betas before 4.0 was final, and adding somewhat clunky context menu items.

Comment 4

[Andy McKay]

This isn't possible with WebExtensions and we are working towards a new add-ons manager that doesn't use XUL. That and given the 6 years since the last comment on this bug, makes me think this isn't going to happen.