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Addressing another issue: if restarting the browser is necessary to register changes in extension list, providing a way of doing so while preserving the browser window/s in their pre-reload state would be convenient and user-friendly. What would you think of, upon closing the extension/option menu window with unregistered changes, an alert box reading like so:<br>
Addressing another issue: if restarting the browser is necessary to register changes in extension list, providing a way of doing so while preserving the browser window/s in their pre-reload state would be convenient and user-friendly. What would you think of, upon closing the extension/option menu window with unregistered changes, an alert box reading like so:<br>
''You need to restart the browser to take changes into account. Restore opened tabs and windows after reloading? (will not affect your starting page etc.)''<br>
''You need to restart the browser to take changes into account. Restore opened tabs and windows after reloading? (will not affect your starting page etc.)''<br>
== Comment by [[User:Dasch|Daniel Schierbeck]] ==
I think the easiest thing we could do to enhance the extension manager user interface is simply to move the buttons into the list.
<pre>
.------------------------------------------------------------.
|                        Extensions                        |
+------------------------------------------------------------+
| .--------------------------------------------------------. |
| | @@@ Mozilla XForms                        Version 0.4  | |
| | @@@ XForms support for Mozilla                        | |
| |    [ Options ]  [ Update ]            [ Uninstall ]  | |
| |--------------------------------------------------------| |
| | @@@ Google Safe Browsing                  Version 1.1  | |
| | @@@ Warns you about fraudulent web pages              | |
| |--------------------------------------------------------| |
| | @@@ Talkback                          Version 1.5.0.1  | |
| | @@@ Submit a crash report to Mozilla.org              | |
| |--------------------------------------------------------| |
| | @@@ DOM Inspector                    Version 1.8.0.1  | |
| | @@@ Inspect the DOM of HTML, XUL, and XML pages...    | |
| '--------------------------------------------------------' |
|                                [ Update all extensions ]  |
'------------------------------------------------------------'
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