Recent versions of Nightly (e.g. 69.0a1 (2019-06-18) (64-bit) win10) have a new display of installed extensions.
With this new display, I found added friction in my daily use of the about:addons page (I have many extensions).
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I can not see the state (enabled/disabled) of a given extension
- Previously, disabled extensions were “dimmed”
- Now, if I’ve scrolled either the “Enabled” or “Disabled” header off the screen, I have no visual clue to the state. I have to:
- click the “…” menu
- observe the state choice on the menu
- invert that displayed state to understand the current state
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An extra step has been added to the enable/disable process.
- Previously, the “toggle button” was always visible
- Now the state toggle is one more click away under the “…” menu
Issue (2) is just an observation, and a likely worthwhile trade-off to get a cleaner design.
Issue (1) does cause me friction, and toggling an extension is something I do fairly often. (E.g. I use different password managers for work vs personal.)
Is there any reason not to have disabled extensions continue to show as dimmed? I can think of some valid reasons, so the better question is - is there a way to reduce the friction of #1.
–Hal