Redundancy in interfaces

Here’s a great example of over-generalizing an interface and the weirdness that results.  The Add-on Updates screen in Firefox:

firefox_updates.jpg

See that bar that says “There are new updates available for your add-ons”?  Yeah, I knew that already because an entire window popped up just to tell me that.  Thanks.

Clicking the X doesn’t really do anything either, it just hides that oh-so-useful message.

How often do people ever skip updates or uncheck a specific one to not install?  It seems like it would be more useful to have a global “don’t update this extension ever” dialog and just auto-update all of them without asking.  It’s not like a user can make an informed decision on what to do here anyways.

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