Closed
Bug 330242
Opened 19 years ago
Closed 18 years ago
many themes and extensions are wrongly listed as being compatible with Mozilla
Categories
(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Public Pages, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
FIXED
People
(Reporter: benoit, Unassigned)
References
Details
Many themes and extensions are listed as being compatible with Mozilla. Mozilla being the Mozilla Application Suite. But because the "premier products" of the Mozilla Foundation also bear the name "Mozilla", authors assume that "Mozilla" is the same as "Firefox", and sometimes even "Thunderbird".
This is very annoying and to the informed users, blatantly obvious.
Pick out an extension, and look at its Mozilla compatibility: Mozilla 1.0 - 1.5.1. Sounds familiar to Firefox' version numbers, right?
This has to be corrected, and if needed, a notice could be put up to stop this confusion.
Offending Themes:
iPox (Mozilla 1.5 - 1.6, description, user comment)
Mozilla.org (Mozilla 1.0 - 1.5.0.*)
qGANT (Mozilla 1.5 - 1.5.0.*)
Whitehart (Mozilla 1.5 - 1.5.1)
Offending Extensions from page 1 - 5:
123 Travel Search (Mozilla 1.0 - 1.5.1)
BF2S.com Browser (Mozilla 1.0 - 1.6, date released)
Offending Extensions from page 6 - 15:
eXopin Plugin (Firefox 1.5 edition) (Mozilla 1.5 - 1.5.1)
Guitar Tabs (Mozilla 1.0 - 1.5.0.*)
HotScripts.Com Search Toolbar (Mozilla 1.0 - 1.5.0.*)
Offending Extensions from page 16 - 25:
LinkedIn Companion for Firefox (Mozilla 1.0 - 1.5.0.*)
magnolia (Mozilla 1.5 - 1.5.1)
MBTA+ (Mozilla 1.0 - 1.5.0.*)
miniRank (Mozilla 1.0 - 1.5.0.*)
MyspaceBar (Mozilla 1.0, date released)
NewOrder Toolbar (Mozilla 1.0 - 1.5.0.*)
Performancing (Mozilla 1.5 - 1.5.0.*)
popTart - Custom Features for the Digg (Mozilla 1.5, date released)
Printable SparkNotes (Mozilla 1.0, date released)
QuickURL (Mozilla 1.0 - 1.5.0.*)
Offending Extensions from page 26 - 34:
Title Save (Mozilla 1.5 - 1.5.0.*)
Webdesign-Forum.de (Mozilla 1.0 - 1.5.0.*)
Also, extensions that do not mention being compatible with Mozilla by inserting "---" shouldn't be listed when selecting "All Extensions" in the Mozilla section.
That's all.
Is this a user-entered description, or the one we build from the DB?
It's built from the database, I think, as it's not part of the user-entered description. It's the text below "For Mozilla:" and next to the icon.
Trying to cram in "Mozilla Application Suite" might be a bit too much.
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Comment 10•19 years ago
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My suggestion would be to inform on the page where those details are entered that "Mozilla" refers to the suite, not Firefox or the platform.
Assignee: morgamic → nobody
Target Milestone: 1.0 → ---
Comment 11•18 years ago
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AMO BUGSPAM FOR COMPONENT MOVE AND DELETE (FILTER ME)
Component: Listings → Web Site
Comment 13•18 years ago
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It looks to me as if AMO would just always list all themes/extensions, not caring if there is a version available for the selected application at all, and so Firefox users get SeaMonkey themes displayed, and vice versa.
Comment 14•18 years ago
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We want the user to quickly know exactly which one to click.
Comment 15•18 years ago
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alanjstr:
How can he know what to click if the usual user doesn't know which themes are available for the chosen product and most actually are not, as it's the case for e.g. SeaMonkey or Sunbird?
Comment 16•18 years ago
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Can we close this as Remora does not have Mozilla as a listed application?
Comment 17•18 years ago
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/me votes yes. If a similar problem happened on Remora with SeaMonkey compatibility, that would be a different issue.
Comment 18•18 years ago
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(In reply to comment #16)
> Can we close this as Remora does not have Mozilla as a listed application?
Absolutely not! http://preview.addons.mozilla.org/ has the exact same problem for Seamonkey, where themes and extensions listed don't work with it!
Comment 19•18 years ago
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(In reply to comment #16)
> Can we close this as Remora does not have Mozilla as a listed application?
Once the SeaMonkey themes section lists the themes that are compatible with SeaMonkey instead of those compatible with Firefox, I think we can. On preview, we seem to still have a problem there. Form the normal AMO database, at least the LCARStrek and EarlyBlue themes are definately marked as compatible with SeaMonkey, so they should be good test cases.
Comment 20•18 years ago
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Remora, which has been "preview" previously and is now live, has this fixed since shortly before it really went live, so marking this fixed.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Assignee | ||
Updated•9 years ago
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Product: addons.mozilla.org → addons.mozilla.org Graveyard
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