Extension Manager UI
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Current Issues
- There are multiple informational messages all sharing the same UI space (e.g. description, update check, update available, extension dependencies, extension blocklisting, incompatiblility, etc.).
- The update now button doesn't scroll the related item into view when tabbing.
Often used commands for managing a selected item are not easily discoverable.
- The UI is type specific (e.g. Extensions and Themes) which prevents us from checking and installing updates for items of different types in one window.
- The UI is not task driven in that we show commands for performing actions that have no relation to the current operation at hand.
- Due to limited UI space in the command bar there is a mix of commands for a selected item and for all items (e.g. options, uninstall, and find updates) and this space would be better utilized for commands that apply to all items.
- There is no UI for managing the two new nsIUpdateItem types of locale and plugin. These were created for Firefox 1.5 but the existing UI was never modified to support them.