599566 - Confusing "Disable" button in add-ons manager

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[antistress]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b7pre) Gecko/20100924 Firefox/4.0b7pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b7pre) Gecko/20100924 Firefox/4.0b7pre

With firefox-4.0b7pre, when i open Add Ons Manager i see "Disable" button in front of each plugin which is confusing because i thought at 1st sight that they were all disabled since it is written "Disable"

Maybe it should be replaced with a toggle button : since plugins are activated by default, Firefox could display a pushed button with "Active" label or something lije that ?

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[antistress]

Attachment: Add On Manager with confusing Disable button (whereas all plugins are enabled)

Comment 2

[antistress]

To sum up : it's not clear at 1st sight if Disable is a status (disabled) or an action

Comment 3

[Dave Garrett]

It's clearly a button and clearly labeled "disable" (verb), not "disabled" (adjective). Buttons do what they're labeled to do, so I don't see how you could expect anything else. That being said, the fact that you were confused at first is proof that it's possible, though I don't know if that's enough cause to change this. It's been this way for a very long time (at least Firefox 1.x) and I haven't heard many complaints.

Comment 4

[Blair McBride [:Unfocused] (UNAVAILABLE)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Firefox could display a pushed button with "Active" label or
> something lije that ?

Disabled addons/plugins have a button labelled "Enabled". And what comment 3 said.

Comment 5

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Disabled addons/plugins have a button labelled "Enabled". And what comment 3
> said.

They will have a button with "Enable". :) But beside that in the final design it will be easier to distinguish between enabled and disabled add-ons. See bug 590175.

Comment 6

[Dave Garrett]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Disabled addons/plugins have...

Disabled addons/plugins also have "(disabled)" clearly next to their name.

Comment 7

[antistress]

When (In reply to comment #3)
> It's clearly a button and clearly labeled "disable" (verb), not "disabled"
> (adjective). Buttons do what they're labeled to do, so I don't see how you
> could expect anything else. That being said, the fact that you were confused at
> first is proof that it's possible, though I don't know if that's enough cause
> to change this. It's been this way for a very long time (at least Firefox 1.x)
> and I haven't heard many complaints.

When i wrote the report i was using an english version of firefox 4b7pre (i'm french)
Now i'm running a french version and i don't find it confusing anymore
sorry for the noise