In the coming months Mozilla will be shipping the Firefox 3 browser, and with that comes a redesigned add-ons site. A preview of the new add-ons site is currently available, and I have to say that it is head over heels better than the current site. Things like the search box really stand out, and search results are laid out in a more friendly format.
The thing that I find impressive with the new site is the fluid integration of the sandboxed add-ons. On the current site you have to login before you can see results from any extensions in the sandbox, but now they are shown side-by-side with the rest of the search results. On the revised site you’ll still need to login to your account before being able to download a sandboxed add-on, but merging the two types of results together is a nice touch. When browsing through the categories, however, there will be a checkbox in the upper-right corner of results which needs to be checked before seeing any of the sandboxed extensions.
One thing that I’m still disappointed with is that you can’t choose how you want your search results sorted. If you’re browsing a category you can sort by name, date, downloads, or rating, but search results have no such options. The current site doesn’t even allow that, but I was hoping with the next revision that they would throw this in.
Very Nice!
They did a great job.
Looks very nice, like the way the search box has more focus now!
This really is a good improvement. I was skeptical but it looks really good. imho
This looks great. I had been hoping they come up with something like this. The results seem a bit better than on the old site too.
The new site is great, one thing that missing is the view of ‘Works with: Firefox….’ so you can see if the Add-on will work with your current Firefox version.
#1 priority for me is filtering the add-ons by FF version. I hate to look up an extension only to find that it’s no longer compatible with my version.
This should have been done a long time ago.
Hopefully we will see it as some kind of advanced search.
I am also hugely disappointed that they still have not offered any sorting feature. If i am recalling it correctly this sorting feature was there(quite some time ago…) and then they suddenly dropped it for no apparent reason. It really is a huge downside for me
One thing is that the new site loads slightly faster.And the appearance is more WEB 2.0ish. impressive i must say
Looks like everyone loves the new site to say the least, but I’m glad to see I’m not alone in wanting more advanced search and sorting features.