Review for Remove Duplicate Messages by reviewer2000
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
This add-on adds a ridiculously long option to the right click and Tools menus so it needed removing as soon as I had used it. This may be why I removed it last time I used it.
For removing duplicates it works well.
Couple of minor annoyances which I found while I had it installed (for less than 5 minutes due to the above), telling it to search special folders gives you an error about not searching special folders, which is set in the global options. I can understand the behaviour if you were selecting the root of the account and searching everything but it shouldn't do this if you are specifically selecting a special folder only.
Once you have searched for duplicate messages and you select delete on the duplicate messages window you get a pop up confirmation. If you select cancel rather than dropping you back to the results window it just cancels the whole process and you have to start again.
* About the cancel-cancels-everything - you're right, it shouldn't work that way. I opened a bug and will fix it:
https://www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=25978
* About the long right-click menu item: I'm not too happy with it myself, but - can you suggest something shorter? I don't want it to be cryptic and confusing.
* About the special folders restriction: In this case I have to respectfully disagree. You need to remember that user error with this extension can lead to Data Loss; as a result, I have to "err on the side of caution" - I remember the cases of people complaining about accidentally deleting messages from Sent / Drafts / etc.
Anyway, thanks for taking the time to write a detailed review.
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