Make extensions available from Preferences

I always end up searching for the extensions and can never find them. Can we make them an option under Preferences as well as Library? Thanks.

Interesting discussion. I haven't really used Safari in years so not familiar with how they do it.

I will say when I am looking for something like extensions or other (small s) settings I will look in menus on the far left or the far right. Thats just usually where they are. Having extensions in with other (small s) settings like Preferences makes logical sense to me. I could also logically see them under the Tools menu because in a way extensions are tools.
If I was a developer I could understand why extensions would fit under Library, but as a user Library is for media. It was one of the last places I looked for the extensions.
That said the logical grouping of extensions with History/Bookmarks/Passwords makes a ton of sense. Those things do all sort of go together. However, I do not feel they belong in something called 'Library'. Nor does that belong under the 'View' menu. (speaking of the View menu, why no 'show page source' there?)

So I am sitting here staring at both the Preferences window and the Library window open and the dev in me can sorta see what you are trying to do and it makes sense. The user in me still can't understand why History/Bookmarks/Passwords/Extensions are in something called a Library under the View menu.

I would suggest renaming the Library something else (I don't have a suggestion as to what yet) and then moving that to just under Preferences in the Orion menu. Or at the very least adding a link in the Preferences window to the Library.

Basically my ultimate goal here is to somehow make the Extensions easier to find.

What the....

Color me red

I swear that wasn't there an hour ago....

Of course its in the middle, and I always look to the left or right side.

Maybe 11 menus is to many?

I wonder if it would still make sense to put a link to Extensions from Preferences?

I could see bookmark management under Preferences, sure.

I just don't logically see bookmarks and extensions together by themselves, they are just different things. But you could group them together if there was others stuff in the group as well. Basically anything the user is going to want to 'edit'. Things like UI settings, download locations, search engine defaults, etc you can put bookmarks and extensions in that group as well. I just don't see them living together as a separate group. they can be apart and each have their own setting but they don't make a very good group, IMO.

I'm not sure I am explaining this well.

I think Extensions having their own menu is fine. And now that I know they have their own menu I know where to look. (No idea why I didn't see it earlier) AND given the importance extensions have in a modern browser it is totally appropriate for them to have their own menu. However, I do worry about too many menus. The (very) old school designer in me says you should try to stay between 7 and 9. Some of those are system menus I know but Orion currently shows 11 menus in my menu bar. IMO that a few too many.

So what is the answer? <shrug> Someone will have to make a choice, and be able to defend that choice against people who come later and say 'Thats wrong, do it this way' Because the last thing you want to do is constantly change the experience for the user because no one know for sure where it should go.