This document outlines the suggested reorganization of the categories on AMO. Is is in support of AMO v3.2 and is tracked in bug 399655. It was suggested that we attempt to recategorize sooner than the release of AMO v3.2 to give time for authors to select their new categories and have the add-ons "settle in".
Category Revision
The following are the new suggested categories:
| Alerts & Updates | Privacy & Security |
| Bookmarks | Search Tools |
| Download Management | Social & Communication |
| Feeds, News & Blogging | Tabs |
| Language Tools | Themes & Appearance |
| Languages & Dictionaries | Toolbars |
| Photos, Music & Videos | Web Development |
| Other |
- Eventually, I'd like to leave our "Other" since no one goes and looks for "Other" add-ons....but for the interim, we will include it for migration purposes. It's the default category for add-ons whose categories have been eliminated.
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- Here is the mapping from before to after for the extension categories:
| Old Category | New Category |
| RSS, News and Blogging | Feeds, News & Blogging |
| Web and Developer Tools | Web Development |
| Downloading and File Management | Download Management |
| Privacy and Security | Privacy & Security |
| Search Tools | Search Tools |
| Interface Customizations | Eventually will be a subcategory within "Themes & Appearance". In the interim, we keep the category as is. |
| Bookmarks | Bookmarks |
| Site-specific | Eliminated, use Other |
| Language Support and Translation | Language Tools |
| Photos and Media | Photos, Music & Videos |
| Social and Sharing | Social & Communication |
| Web Data, Alerts, and Widgets | Alerts & Updates for most. Web Data and Widgets need to be remapped manually |
| Miscellaneous | Eliminated, use Other |
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