Nick Halsey

<p>Live preview in the customizer allows you to see what plugins do to your site instantly. This experimental plugin brings the ability to activate and deactivate plugins from within the customizer. Plugin installation and updates could be a potential future phase depending on the success of this experiment.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the customizer preview cannot currently reflect changes to the active plugins list. Additionally, plugins are not sandboxed – broken plugins activated from here could break your site. Use this plugin with caution. However, changes are not published to your live site until you “Save and Publish,” and the plugin manager does functionally activate and deactivate plugins. Preview functionality requires hooking into WordPress before plugins are loaded (for obvious reasons), which isn’t possible to do within a plugin.</p>
<p>See https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/40451 for additional discussion.</p>


Customize Plugin Manager

Live preview in the customizer allows you to see what plugins do to your site instantly. This experimental plugin brings the ability to activate and d …

Temyk

<h4>It is customizes the plugins page:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Show a plugins icons</li>
<li>Displays the changelog in the update notification</li>
<li>The plugin list also displays logos and icons if the plugin is loaded via GIT. The update notification for these plug-ins is reduced so as not to distract attention from updating other plug-ins.</li>
<li>Adds sorting of plugins on the fly: Active first/Not active at first</li>
<li>In WordPress 5.5+ changes the Auto-update column to small neat checkboxes</li>
<li>The “Delete” plugin link is now active for activated plugins. It allows you to immediately deactivate and delete the plugin.</li>
</ul>


Plugins Page Tweaker

It works great!

The plugin adds icons on the plugins page and other tweaks, such as displaying the GIT branch

Customize Plugin Manager vs Plugins Page Tweaker