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I don't really like the category title "Recommended add-ons".

Exactly who recommended these and for what?

The implication is that it is recommended that everyone install these.  If that is the case they should just be included in the product.

If that is not the case, then recommended is NOT the correct word here.

Also, if an add-on is NOT recommended then is that supposed to mean that I should not install it?

Perhaps "Suggested add-ons" or "Popular add-ons" would be better choices for the title.


I, too, do not agree with having recommended add-ons in the new AOM UI. IMHO, if the add-on is so good that it is recommended, why isn't it's functionality already included in the browser? Also IMHO, having this whole portion of the add-on manager seems like so much code bloat. Wasn't Firefox started as a simple, unbloated web browser-only alternative to the Mozilla Suite? Wouldn't it be smarter to devote the programing resources to the "guts" of the browser instead of this "bloat?" There certainly should not be anything added to the add-on manager UI that will slow it's opening when we do open it.