When I search my addon from the Addons manager page, it never appears in the results. [image] While when I do the same by visiting the mozilla addon’s site, it shows up as first thing. [image] Can you tell me why this is happening?

One of the disadvantages of choosing a preliminary review instead of full review is that your add-on will not show up in search results on the add-on manager page.

Is this true? Hopefully someone else can chime in. I always thought that prelim review does make it show in search results. I just tested a search of my prelim addons and they are showing. Aside: Major props to you, seeing a question asker (you) now become an answer-er. :slight_smile:

[image] noitidart: Is this true? Hopefully someone else can chime in. I always thought that prelim review does make it show in search results. I just tested a search of my prelim addons and they are showing. Aside: Major props to you, seeing a question asker (you) now become an answer-er. …

[image] noitidart: Oh I see, that’s some cool info. Is this written/documented anywhere? It is, but I discovered it by chance when I tried to search it in the add-on manager page, like OP did. Only after that I looked up for some information related to this and I found the following: Mozilla…

Awesome research, thanks, let’s talk to the amo editors and see if we can make this more accessible.

[image] noitidart: Awesome research, thanks, let’s talk to the amo editors and see if we can make this more accessible. Can’t do anything from the google searches, the page has to become more relevant with use. Probably provide more links to the review details whenever mentioned on the networ…

I have the same problem , despite the fact that my addon has been fully reviewed . Is this topic the right place to resolve it or should I file some bug report or request?

I’ve found the cause and has to close my issue: the whole thing is the addons manager’s search cache. However, it would be interesting to know about its lifetime.

Interesting find. Did you get it to work by hitting Ctrl + F5? How did you realize it was cache?

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noitidart (Noitidart) October 29, 2015, 7:51pm 5

Oh I see, that’s some cool info. Is this written/documented anywhere?

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