Closed Bug 586757 Opened 14 years ago Closed 14 years ago

No way to uninstall extensions in new add-ons manager

Categories

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 478487

People

(Reporter: callow.mark, Unassigned)

References

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b4pre) Gecko/20100812 Minefield 4.0b4pre There appears to be no way to uninstall extensions in the new Mozilla 5 add-ons manager. Only a disable button appears under the enables extensions. In the old add-ons manager on the extensions tab both "disable" and "uninstall" buttons would appear. I want to be able to uninstall extensions, themes and plug-ins. Reproducible: Always
There is a remove button but some extensions can't be removed. Those extensions are systemwide extension that some software outside of FF installed. Those didn't have a remove button in the old addon manager and they don't have a remove button in the new addon manager. Plugin also can't be uninstalled because FF didn't install those.
I am running Minefield with a different profile so my normal add-ons do not appear, only the systemwide extensions; not realizing they were systemwide extensions, it seemed to me that there was no uninstall feature. I would suggest having a greyed-out (disabled) uninstall button for these cases as in the old add-ons manager and have the pop-up help say something like "To uninstall, uninstall the software that installed this extension" and do something similar for plug-ins.
Component: General → Add-ons Manager
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
QA Contact: general → add-ons.manager
Lets get feedback from UX. Jennifer what do you think?
Keywords: uiwanted
Version: unspecified → Trunk
Blocks: 562927
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Keywords: uiwanted
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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