Extension details page should be tuned towards runtime info when extension is installed #159786
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User experience issues
Clicking on an extension opens it's extension details page. This makes sense when an extension is not installed, but for installed extensions we can do better.
I propose that when the user click on an installed extension we still show the extension details page with the same header, but the focused tab is different. Instead we focus the "Runtime Status" tab and this tab should be rich with runtime information. Currently it only shows activation time.
I suggest that this tab has the full functionality of the Running Extensions experience (report issue, disable extension, start EH profile). And has additional useful statistics about runtime. For example number of crashes / detected slowness.
@joaomoreno contributed to the idea
fyi @alexdima @jrieken who I know are passionate about runtime extension info and might have ideas on cool info we could show here
@TylerLeonhardt for ext report issues improvements
Let me know what you think about this
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