Ext2Abc
Adds a “Sort” button on the extension manager to arrange your extensions alphabetically. There’s no permanent change to the order, as this had a possibility of corrupting the extension manager’s files.
Update: The new version is compatible with Firefox 1.5b1/1.5b2 *only*. It does not work for Firefox 1.0.6 or 1.0.7. There’s a significant change in the extension manager from the current stable to the next branch; I’m trying to fix it so it will be cross-compatibile, but for now, this will only work for Flock and Firefox 1.5b1 or higher.
If you still have Firefox 1.0.4, you can download a working version of this extension here.
Install Ext2Abc 0.4
(Size: 12kb Release Date: October 30th 2005)
Tested on Firefox 1.5b1 and Flock developer preview.
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March 7th, 2005 at 9:17 am
Just a heads up, this extension is no longer listed at the site below. This might be problematic because many people might go directly to that URL, and not the main page.
http://extensions.roachfiend.com
BTW, I really love your Firefox extensions and find them useful, thanks for writing them. But why are they not listed on update.mozilla.org?
March 8th, 2005 at 9:06 am
Thanks for the comment, now there’s a redirect page there.
The reason why I only list them here is because it’s much easier for me to maintain them in one place, and as of this moment, there’s no good way to edit/update extensions at update.mozilla.org. The developer login has been a long-promised feature that is still not in effect, so to submit them there, you have to file a bug report via bugzilla which is, quite simply, a pain in the butt, and I’ve had mine in the past get lost in the shuffle.
March 27th, 2005 at 8:23 pm
dude, the extension’s good and all, but you need to put in an ‘unsort’ button so that i can get to the extensions that i placed at the top and then forgot what their names were XD
March 28th, 2005 at 10:20 pm
Thanks for the extension. I’d been wanting something to do this for some time.
I have, however, one small snag… after I updated from FF 1.0.1 to 1.0.2, the sort is no longer permanent. The extensions that were present before the upgrade remain in a permanent sorted position, but when a new extension is added and the sort button is used, the sort does not stay after FF is closed and re-opened. :-/
Any ideas on how to fix this?
April 2nd, 2005 at 6:13 pm
Why not add an ext2abc option to autosort when opening the extensions window?
April 2nd, 2005 at 6:16 pm
(Or, perhaps on browser startup. Whatever would do the job.)
April 7th, 2005 at 6:50 am
This useful extension doesn’t work for me, I can’t figure out what’s wrong.
Am I the only one?
I installed v. 0.2.1 on Firefox:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050325 Firefox/1.0.2 (Debian package 1.0.2-1)
April 19th, 2005 at 7:18 am
The “Sort Extensions” extension is an alternative approach to this:
http://www.vesterman.com/FirefoxExtensions/SortExtensions
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May 18th, 2005 at 11:37 am
Hi,
Clicking on the install link does nothing. How do I get Ext2Abc to install?
Thanks
May 25th, 2005 at 2:48 am
Carm & others:
I, too, run firefox on linux (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2) and Ext2Abc does not work for me, either. It works wonderfully on winblows, though…
Eric, any idea why it doesn’t work on linux? It adds a (functionless) sort button.
May 25th, 2005 at 6:35 pm
Sorry for you linux guys, but as I’ve said before a few times, I develop for Windows simply because that’s what I run and know. I’ve tried various flavors of linux from time to time, but I find it very awkward to get used to. So basically I have no idea how I would be able to fix it. Sorry!
June 11th, 2005 at 8:46 pm
Great tool, only one drawback : since the ordering is not permanent (which is THE way to go in sorting extensions within the manager), how can one “go back” to the original ordering in chronological order, as installed? The fact is that I need these two ways of listing my extensions using infoLister or ListZilla extensions:
Alphabetical, for easilly looking up a specific extensions
“as installed”, for analysing clues about what extension or install sequence could bring bugs or make my overall Firefox more stable
Thanks for your work! :-)
July 3rd, 2005 at 7:25 am
I tried to use this extension in a recent Firefox: Dear Alpha 1 (I changed the maxVersion to 1.0+ to be able to install it). However, when I click the Sort-button the JS Console says:
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception… “Component returned failure code: 0×80004005 (NSERRORFAILURE) [nsIRDFContainer.Init]” nsresult: “0×80004005 (NSERRORFAILURE)” location: “JS frame :: chrome://ext2abc/content/ext2abc.js :: SortExtensionsBy :: line 26″ data: no]
It seems that the implementation of Container.Init(extensionDS,root); has changed. Hope that you are able to fix this. Or that Firefox 1.1 has an option to sort extensions in the Extension Manager.
July 5th, 2005 at 12:52 am
Just thought I would let you know…
I have just successfully installed this on Thunderbird 1.02 (Windows) after using ir for some time on Firefox.
Good work!
(Unfortunately, it was listzilla that I wanted and that won’t install!!)
July 8th, 2005 at 5:46 am
My English not so good but thank for lovely site with information I looking for and need also.
July 11th, 2005 at 3:13 pm
Thanks for Ext2Abc! It’s been so useful for FF up to 1.0.4. I’ve just loaded a parallel DeerPark Alpha2. Many extensions went grey saying ‘incompatible’ - fair enough. Ext2Abc doesn’t go grey, but also doesn’t seem to sort the list. Perhaps it should go grey too?
Regards,
BobG
July 20th, 2005 at 8:46 am
Wow, this is a great web site. I am so glad I found it, thank you. It is funny, I was just talking to my friend about their web site, and they said they like your site too!
November 7th, 2005 at 3:58 pm
ex2abc is not localised, could you fix that, because I want translate it :) (in french)
December 11th, 2005 at 11:43 am
And in what language it localized?
December 16th, 2005 at 9:44 pm
Great extension. All the possible thanks!
December 21st, 2005 at 5:07 pm
I’m posting this here becuase you turned off comments in BugMeNot, and my issue is unrelated to the others’ comments: I don’t even HAVE a right click menu option with BugMeNot for Fx 1.5 (nor an option under Tools. Nor an option to put an icon on the taskbar, etc.) There’s no way to launch the prog. I can see. Hope this helps with the new site’s development/prog’s interaction w/Fx. Keep up the good (hard) work! Happy Holidays!
January 23rd, 2006 at 3:14 am
Carm & others:
I, too, run firefox on linux (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2) and Ext2Abc does not work for me, either. It works wonderfully on winblows, though…
January 23rd, 2006 at 4:03 pm
I have problems with this program on Firefox 1.5.
I after installed and checked the Sort option there is no way to get the Extensions back the way they were.
It says on the first lines above:
“There’s no permanent change to the order, as this had a possibility of corrupting the extension manager’s files.”
But this is not true. It does make permanent changes!
How can I get back the default order, anybody knows?
May 28th, 2006 at 3:54 pm
Good, this one is really needed.
July 16th, 2006 at 5:22 am
Been looking for something like this. Thanks!
August 9th, 2006 at 6:00 pm
Would you please put your updated extensions on your site?
October 23rd, 2006 at 6:11 pm
Firefox 2.0 is here and appears to have broken this sweet little extension. Any chance of an update? My extensions are in disarray! :)
October 23rd, 2006 at 11:36 pm
Now that I’ve installed a few more extensions, it seems that the new manager sorts by default the way ext2abc used to. Thanks muchly for the extension while it was necessary!