lapcat/SafariExtensions

FB9920704 - The Uninstall button is confusing to users, including the world famous Stephen Fry

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The world famous Stephen Fry believed that he had to delete my whole app in order to deactivate my Safari extension. https://twitter.com/stephenfry/status/1495753008919031808 I believe that this is due to the Uninstall button. Now that all Safari extensions are distributed inside of app bundles, the Uninstall button no longer actually uninstalls anything. Which is a problem by itself. The Uninstall button made sense back when Safari extensions were independent safariextz files. Now the Uninstall button no longer makes sense, and is confusing. If you look at the attached screenshot, users are more likely to notice and "understand" the Uninstall button than the little checkmark in the sidebar that actually activates and deactivates the extension. Maybe a Show in Finder button would be fine, which is what the Uninstall button actually suggests now, as shown in the attached screenshot. But the Uninstall button itself should be removed.

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