I cannot find Favorite and Add to collection button in new AMO design.
Does anyone see these buttons?
I cannot find Favorite and Add to collection button in new AMO design.
Does anyone see these buttons?
Hello Illuminator,
those features can be accessed via the collections section on AMO:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/collections/
We did remove the âadd toâ buttons from the add-ons details page to focus this page on itâs core function of informing the user about the add-on it shows.
Collection page is read-only (and remove-only). I cannot add any addons into my collection.
Sorry to here that. For me collections still work.
I just tested this by modifying one collection and making it public:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/collections/designakt/favorites/
and creating another one:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/collections/designakt/test/
(I will delete those in a few days.)
Have you tried creating a new collection?
How to add addons to favorites/collection? I didnât see add button.
Thereâs no add button in the add-on pages anymore, but if you go to the collection page and edit the collection, you can add any add-on.
Thank you very much. It take a long time to add addon to my fav. Hope it will be easier and better.
Markus, this is a huge step backwards.
I maintain multiple AMO collections that have followers. Sometimes I need to add a new extension to up to 5 different collections (sometimes even more).
This was simple and fluid with the previous design.
Now, I have to go to each collection, manually type in the name of the new extension, search for it, and then add it. I then have to repeat that process for each collection.
If I have to do this for 5 extensions, it could mean over 1000 keypresses and button-clicks compared to what previously took about 20 clicks.
In other words, the new process is too onerous to even consider using. The bottom line is that I will no longer be maintaining any of my AMO collections. I doubt other collection curators will go through the now laborious and tedious process either.
I also actively added interesting extensions to my personal favorites. The new design makes that process tedious at best. I think Iâll just go back to creating an offline text file; itâs much easier. Unfortunately, with that workaround, no one else in the community benefits.
If Mozilla needs help with usability issues like these, let me know. I happen to be a human factors engineer (UI/UX professional).
I project that the result of the new design will be less interest in AMO as a community. The AMO community is one of the primary attractions to Firefox over the competition. This new design is not in the best interest of Mozilla.
Someone should create a Firefox add-on just to restore the button?
Completely agree.
PLEASE FIX ASAP!
Please restore ability to Add to Favorites, and Add to Collection, list all collections ad-on belongs to. And link to collection from the Add to Collection list.
I am a big creator and manager of add-on collections (120+). I NEED these features.
Yes, I know I can bring up my collection (VERY LONG processâŠmultiple steps, only shows 20 at a time, have to searchâhave to remember naming used, have to have correct spelling, etc)
Without these features, I am working BLIND!!! Cannot see to which collections I have add-on assigned, which I use to determine where to add new onesâŠAnd there is NO fallback. No other way to find ALL MY collections with same add-on.
BREAKS what was once a simple work flow into MULTIPLE MULTIPLE MULTIPLE steps and FAR FAR LESS efficientâŠthis will KILL the AMO community of aggregators like myself that create collections.
I hope Mozilla.org reads this post. If not, what is best what is best way to elevate attention to this issue?
2 extra links, one of which is a drop-down menu, does NOT clutter the interface but adds HUGE value.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE restore these simple features!
And I agree with @FOX, âThe AMO community is one of the primary attractions to Firefox over the competition. This new design is not in the best interest of Mozilla.â
Collections are only effective way currently available to manage add-ons for personal use and for sharing. Here are some benefits:
Use of Collections should be improved and promoted, NOT made to be hidden and hard to manage.
One reason collections are not as well used as could be is because tools to create and manage them are weak, there are no easy search tools for users to take full advantage of them and for collector creators to communicate better about them. This creates a vicious circle.
AND this step of removing 2 simple features/links makes it FAR worse.
PLEASE RESTORE!!!
BTW, I spent a lot of time and effort to get the Add to Collection list fixed so that they were sorted alphabetically for easy management (just check the Bugzilla site). It was fixed not that long ago (after a few years of itâs working, itâs not working, itâs working again cycles) and now it is taken away completely.
There is no way to sort list of MY Collections or search within them, and as stated before, current list only allows show 20 at a timeâŠVERY hard to manage.
The âAdd To Collectionsâ link made all this possible with just a a very few clicks.
[edit] I have added link to bugzilla for reference for the fix that was just finalized and put into product last Sep, only 7 months ago: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593634
This TOTALLY not an improvement!
In the past these are the steps:
Now these are the steps (translated from german; not accurate translation):
Seriously!? How can THAT be an improvement?
AGREED!!!
Actually, it takes MANY more steps than that:
Versus OLD method:
PLEASE reverse SOON!
added a couple more details above.
Thatâ crazy!
Why change this function for only 2 lines in a very lax design ?
Take care of us before break something âŠ
Ps:
The" add to collection" need to be improved ( i have in list popup, many coll twice by example).
I post about that here:
https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/amo-experiencing-technical-difficulties/5249/21?u=decembre56
yes, it needs fixingâŠBUT right now there is no link to Add to Collection.
Better to add it back with itâs bugginess than to leave it out completely!!!
Without it, it is VERY painful to maintain collections.
ANY news on this? How hard is it to add back 2 links?
I thought that it would be a good idea to organize and update my collections today but Iâve run into the same issue as others.
The alternative method to add to collections as suggested here, quite frankly, sucks.
Aside from managing collections, the only other reason for non-developers to sign-in would be to leave a review.
It has to be that those who take the time to sign in are passionate about add-ons and theyâre either doing so to manage their collections or leave a review.
Take one away and thereâs less of a reason to be engaged with the site.
If collections will be phased out, please inform AMO users so that they donât waste any more time on them.
If they arenât going to be phased out, please re-enable the previous options or at least, provide an add-on.
I use collections for personal use but I do have a featured one with a fair amount of followers.
Granted, Thunderbird probably wonât be on AMO forever, but, still, since the collection is followed and featured and even seen within the product, Iâd like to work on it and my other ones, but I wonât as things stand now. I have kitten videos to watch and other things to do.
Just please fix this.