I’ve been porting my Firefox extension, Panic Button, to Manifest V3, and have noticed that there is a little indicator that appears directly below the browser action toolbar button icon; the tooltip on the same button also includes the text, “Permission needed.”
However, the extension doesn’t require any website permissions. The permissions it does request, in the manifest.json file, are:
"permissions": [
"activeTab",
"cookies",
"history",
"menus",
"storage",
"tabs"
]
In case it matters, the action key in the extension manifest is set up as follows:
"action": {
"default_icon": {
"16": "img/default16.svg",
"32": "img/default32.svg",
"64": "img/default32.svg"
},
"default_title": "Panic Button",
"default_area": "navbar"
}
When right-clicking on the browser action toolbar button, there is a new toggle option in the context menu that didn’t appear pre-MV3:
Extension Can Read and Change Data:
︎ Only When Clicked
The “Only When Clicked” toggle menu item is checked by default, and there doesn’t appear to be a way to uncheck it.
What is this new toggle option on the context menu, and why is that indicator present on the browser action icon?
