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Build Identifier: 02M7 When you click "Clear" button in Plug-in registry there are deleted all plug-ins. As a user I would expect deleting only the plug-in which is selected. I am using FF 4.0 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go to plug-in registry 2. Select one plug-in 3. Click "clear" button - all the plug-ins are removed instead of selected.
We should change the UI to an easier to understand presentation. I would suggest a more table-oriented approach similar to how Firefox displays the list of installed add-ons. The rows of that table could look be something like this: <icon><div><font bold+large>plugin name</font><br> One sentence describing the plugin. <a href="javascript:expand row in-line with more information such as contributed services, and a link to a page with more information e.g. a wiki page">Details</a> </div><input type="button" value="Remove"></input> Instead of a "clear all" button we should do a "refresh all", either as a button on the page, or as a side-effect of opening the page (similar to how the Eclipse about dialog starts verifying signed plugins when you open the dialog).
see also bug 339491. didn't mark duplicate since there are specific ideas in here, too. I'm going to give this page a couple hours of love for M8 and will see how far I get.
marking fixed, as I fixed the original problem. There is now a "Uninstall Selected" link in the toolbar that will uninstall the selected plugins. The refresh and clear icons are gone. I didn't move to the table representation in the interest of time, I'd have to restructure this page which now relies on most of the behavior being implemented as a specialized tree widget.
(In reply to comment #1) > We should change the UI to an easier to understand presentation. I would > suggest a more table-oriented approach similar to how Firefox displays the list > of installed add-ons. > > The rows of that table could look be something like this: > > <icon><div><font bold+large>plugin name</font><br> > One sentence describing the plugin. <a > href="javascript:expand row in-line with more information such as contributed > services, and a link to a page with more information e.g. a wiki > page">Details</a> > </div><input type="button" value="Remove"></input> Moved this idea to bug 348033 for the future. > > Instead of a "clear all" button we should do a "refresh all", either as a > button on the page, or as a side-effect of opening the page (similar to how the > Eclipse about dialog starts verifying signed plugins when you open the dialog). The old clear code was simply deleting the tree and repopulating it, relying on the plug-in registry traversal to update the info. Since the tree is recreated on page reload, it seemed to me that the refresh button added no value. I removed it since the user can simply reload the page. That said, I'm not sure if simply repopulating the tree will actually reread the plugin rather than use the cache. I can say that reload acts exactly as the old refresh did. Note also that I removed two levels from the tree PluginRegistry Plugins plugin1 plugin2 So now when the page opens you see plugin1 plugin2 etc.
