619288 - Extensions are not properly (alphabetically) sorted if their name's first letter is not capital

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 616841

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[klonos]

I have more than a few of extensions installed, but I just recently noticed this:

All extensions are sorted correctly except the 'jsLib' that is listed last. I take it that the addons manager lists all capital letters first and small ones after. It would feel more natural if it was by letter though (non-case-sensitive). For example A,a,B,b,C,c... and so forth.

This only happens in the new addons manager (fx4) and not in the old one (fx 3.6.x) where jsLib is listed right after 'Java Quick Starter' and before 'Link Alert'.

Comment 1

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

Hmm, should have been fixed by Bug 562795 long ago. What Version of Firefox 4 did you test?

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2] (away 10/03 - 10/13)]

Currently we have bug 616841 for non-ascii characters. Not really sure how this issue plays into it.

Comment 3

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

I believe it will fix this too.

Comment 4

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

I have a similar issue, in that the lowercase letter sorts in a different order, but only when accessed in a certain way.

ie:
Addons manager -> Extensions tab = sorted one way (lowercase "i" of iMacros at bottom)

However, if you go:
Addons manager -> Extensions -> Sort by date updated -> Sort by name
...then the order is different from just viewing the extensions section on it's own. (ie now iMacros appears halfway up, sorted correctly).

Comment 5

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Unowned blocker, over to Blair to handle.

Comment 6

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Verified that this is just exactly the same issue as bug 616841