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April 23, 2004
Extension/Update Manager Screenshots
Posted by ben at April 23, 2004 3:29 AM
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Awesome! Very cool, Ben, very cool. :)
Posted by: Cell at April 23, 2004 3:49 AM
Cool.
'Some incompatible extensions' message would be way better if you gave their names :-)
Posted by: franCk at April 23, 2004 4:03 AM
Very nice... probably the most important thing missing in Firefox is finally coming!!! :-)
Posted by: Squadron76 at April 23, 2004 4:42 AM
When it searches for an update, is that always in a central repository or is the update path held by the extension?
Posted by: Colin Ramsay at April 23, 2004 4:58 AM
hi Ben,
i'm the german translator of Firefox and I'm just curious to know how this will work with the localisation efforts of us translators? IIRC you also implemented auto-update of the Browser itself, how will this work with the localised version of Firefox?
regard, a very curious
Abdulkadir Topal
Posted by: Abdulakdir Topal at April 23, 2004 11:11 AM
It is very pretty. Let's hope you can add it to 0.9 release.
It will be a great new feature for firefox. A killer feature, indeed.
Posted by: MozJF at April 23, 2004 12:31 PM
Progress... w00t!! :-D
Ben, you rock.
Posted by: awnuts at April 23, 2004 2:39 PM
The checkboxes on the first image don't really lend themselves to good UI design, what with being overlaid on the icon.
There's plenty of horizontal space still available in that dialog to add a column to put the checkboxes in alone.
Also, the author of the plugins could be prefixed with "Author: " or "by: " as the text on it's own under the description seems a bit weird to me.
Other than that, excellent work as usual, Ben!
Posted by: Chris at April 24, 2004 6:34 PM
I noticed that a "Web Search" item has been added under the Tools menu. Clicking on produces no response. Mind clueing us in, Ben?
Posted by: Alex H. at April 24, 2004 10:28 PM
Ben: Please be sure to include support for each extension can have it's own update URL. I developed some extensions that only live internally inside the company and make no sense for outside people to use. I also like be able to use the auto update support for these extensions.
Posted by: Henrik Gemal at April 25, 2004 3:12 AM
What about extension installation into profile dir versus application dir?
Posted by: Delicates at April 25, 2004 1:28 PM
I worry that if new users are randomly going to be able to quickly browse and install extensions as if they were options in a menu then we'll need to make sure that all of the extensions are up to the quality of the Firefox browser itself... Users won't make the distinction between extensions and the offical firefox branch and if the extension causes problems firefox will get the blame.. and we all know how many problems extensions can cause.
Posted by: Tom at April 25, 2004 2:04 PM
Alex H.: The Web Search menu item puts focus in the Search Bar (assuming you have it displayed). It's not exactky obvious though.
Posted by: Alex Bishop at April 25, 2004 4:03 PM
Cool staff!
Gee, that's amazing idea! I like it. This is one of many things that proves open source may be even better than money pushed marketing machines. Yeah, this feature makes Firefox using easier. I'm looking forward this feature in a stable release. Crossing fingers for you, Ben!
Tom
Posted by: Tomas at April 25, 2004 11:14 PM
i agree with awnuts and Delicates comments. Install checkbox usability needs to be better and there needs to be a way for quality control and compatibity assurances for extentions.
Also, there needs to be a standardized way extentions are allowed to place menu items
Posted by: joeUser at April 26, 2004 10:08 AM
Just my opinion, but personally I like the checkboxes where they are.
Posted by: tvh2k at April 28, 2004 4:00 PM
Just what we've been waiting for!
Posted by: Gee at April 29, 2004 4:20 AM
have you thought of moving the checkboxes just a hair to the right and maybe down just a smidgen?
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Posted by: Dr.TOBOT at April 30, 2004 11:20 AM
Just like previous posters I think it looks great. How about adding scroll bars to the first picture? It's irritating when you can't see the entire path.
Maybe this is something everyone knows, but what are the blue red and green squares on picture three?
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