Classicish Add-on Manager For Firefox
Not every Firefox user likes the new add-on manager that the developers have added to the browser some time ago. Veteran users may recall a time when the add-on manager opened up in a popup window instead of a browser tab. The design changed as well, everything feals bigger and less streamlined in the new add-on manager than in the old.
The Classicish Add-on Manager add-on for the Firefox web browser restyles the current add-on manager to look and feel more like the classic one. The most notable change is that it moves the add-on manager from the browser tab into its own window, making it completely independent from the browser window it was opened in.
Another benefit of that approach is that you can change the add-ons manager's window size without changing the size of the browser window itself. The interface lists all installed add-ons on startup. Add-ons are listed with a black font color on white background for better readability.
Each add-on listing takes up the same screen estate in the window, and displays the extension's icon, name, description and an options button.
Everything else has been moved into the right-click context menu. This includes options to disable listed add-ons, to remove them or to check for updates.
The options button opens the add-on's options menu. Depending on the add-on, it may either open in a new window or on the same page. The back and forward buttons, and the sidebar can be used to navigate back to the listing afterwards.
The sidebar lists add-ons, plugins, themes and userscripts, but no option to install add-ons from the window. Most Firefox users install add-ons directly on the Mozilla site anyway and not in the Add-ons Manager.
Classicish Add-on Manager is a useful add-on for Firefox users who prefer to open the add-ons manager in an extra window instead of the browser tab.
Firefox users can download the add-on from the official Mozilla website.
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There are also many userstyles to enhance the new add-on manager created since the firefox 4.
to just name few,
Firefox 9 – Stripped Down Addons Manager
Firefox 4 or newer – Compact Addons Manager
Ergonomic Add-ons Manager
Dual pane Firefox 4 add-ons manager
AiOS – Simple Addon Manager
http://userstyles.org/styles/browse/app/manager
Thanks Martin for great article as always.
There are some more alternatives, such as:
Cleanest Addon Manager – Addon Manager Firefox 4 – Addon Manager Fix – Add-ons Manager Dialog Returns …
And also Classicish seems to be a great tweak.
I, Personally, really hate new firefox addon manager style.
I have ony one problem with Addon box/tab. I have a lot of extensions and sometimes I do not remember exact name. Do you know anything that can search in Addon tab?
I don’t have a problem with the Add on Manager opening in a new Tab!
As long as it opens, that’s fine with me! :)
I use Slim Add on Manager to keep all the Add ons trimmed down, only showing the basic information!
I can easily check for updates which get applied when needed!
On my system, this did not behave as described.
It did cause the Add-ons Manager to become a separate, resizable window in a white-background color scheme – and that’s all it did.
“Everything else has been moved into the right-click context menu.” Nope. There were no right-click menus for the listed add-ons, and their previous arrays of buttons remained just as they were before I installed this.
Thanks Martin.
There are some more alternatives, such as:
Cleanest Addon Manager
Addon Manager Firefox 4
Addon Manager Fix
Add-ons Manager Dialog Returns
And classicish is a great tweak too.
I, Personally, really hate new firefox addon manager style.
Looks like a must have, thanks.
The add-ons manager in the browser tab is
one of several changes I found annoying
and inferior to prior versions of Firefox.