What Is It?

A Firefox add-on (extension – I use the words interchangeably) that provides a list of installed Firefox add-ons with user definable level of detail. Most importantly one option is to see what Firefox versions the extensions are compatible with.

Why Would You Want It?

Provides a quick and easy way to list all the extensions you have installed and their details. I have used this add-on in the past to list extensions when installing a clean version of Firefox to make sure I have added back in all my add-ons. Recently I decided to try Firefox Beta 3 Portable and downloaded it, then transferred my current Firefox 2 Portable profile complete with all extensions over. On starting it up Firefox duly sorted the compatible extensions and checked for updates so behave perfectly well. At this point I found that many of the  add-ons I consider to be essential for my day to day use were not yet compatible. OK, so you can use the nightly tester tools on a hit and miss basis to see whether the non-compatible extensions will work. This is slow and painful plus some incompatible extensions will completely crash FF on startup meaning you have to delete or move the extension folder. I tried it and gave up in the end as I could not justify the time. Later I looked at Extension List Dumper and realised this was a quick way to keep an eye on the compatibility of my important extensions so I could gauge the time when a changeover to Firefox 3 was going to be acceptable.

What Does It Do – The Essentials?

Summary:

• Lists all the currently installed extensions in your Firefox setup

Pros: What’s Good?

• Freeware

• Provides lots of information
• User definable options on the level of information
• Copy to clipboard
• Copy format is compatible with spreadsheets in dividing separate headings into columns
• Simple to Use

Cons:What’s Not So Good?

• Latest version not available at Mozilla at time of writing

More About What it Does in Detail:

Extension List Dumper installs just like any other Firefox add-on and is available at the Mozilla Add-ons website.

Quote from the Mozilla Add-ons Extension List Dumper page:

 Extension List Dumper

by Sogame

10 reviews

This extension adds a button ("Dump list") to the Add-ons window. When this button is pressed, a new window is opened with the list of installed extensions, themes or or plugins.
The browser version and the Operating System are also dumped.
This extension is useful to keep a list of your extensions and themes, or when reporting a bug or a conflict to an extension author.

And a more detailed quote from the developers home page where the latest version is available

Extension List Dumper

This extension adds a button ("Dump list") to the Add-ons window. When this button is pressed, a new window is opened with the list of installed extensions, themes or plugins (as plain text, as HTML or as CSV).

In addition to the name, some other information can be added to the list:

• The version number.
• The description.
• The homepage URL.
• The add-on ID.
• The application (Firefox, Thunderbird…) min and max version.
• The add-on status (incompatible/disabled).
• The browser version and the Operating System.
• The total number of installed add-ons.
• The date the list has been generated.

The list can be saved, printed and copied to the clipboard.

This extension is useful to keep a list of your extensions and themes, or when reporting a bug or a conflict to an extension author.

General Use of Extension List Dumper

(Click on pictures to enlarge where necessary)

Once installed it displays a "Dump List" toolbar button in the Add-ons screen or Sidebar:

Clicking on the button brings up a window showing the installed and available extensions

Various options can be chosen to filter the amount of information depending on your requirements, there is also a dropdown filter that allows

• All
• Enabled
• Incompatible
• Disabled

extensions to be viewed

Options Dialogs

The options are generally self explanatory from the screenshots and allow default displayed information to be set as well as options to save.

Clipboard

All the information can be copied to the clipboard as text (tab separated) this means you can paste it into any text or word application and also into a spreadsheet where the information is automatically assigned to rows and columns. This means you can then us the spreadsheet to edit, filter and sort the data to display what you need.

What are the Technical Details & Compatibility?

What is the My Free Review Experience?

I find this a useful Firefox add-on that I use occasionally list extensions in order to review what I have installed or to set up a new clean portable version of Firefox. I will now be using to check when my favorite/essential extensions are updated to use with Firefox 3.

I rate this as:

Simple – Does the Job – Good Options

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