Why don't I see my page action in my addon?

andreip · May 11, 2017, 7:02pm

Hi,

I created a WebExtension and I cannot see my page action.

andreicristianpetcu/google_translate_this/blob/81b7f16858650f127ec3e54250a7089ca9b03219/manifest.json

{
	"name": "__MSG_appName__",
	"version": "1.0.3",
	"homepage_url": "https://github.com/andreicristianpetcu/google_translate_this",
	"manifest_version": 2,
	"description": "__MSG_appDescription__",
	"icons": {
		"16": "images/icon-16.png",
		"48": "images/icon-48.png",
		"96": "images/icon-96.png",
		"128": "images/icon-128.png"
	},
	"default_locale": "en",
	"background": {
		"scripts": [
			"scripts/background.js"
		]
	},
	"permissions": [
    "tabs",

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What am I doing wrong?
Thank you

Kenny_D · May 12, 2017, 5:07am

According to this:

While browser actions are displayed by default, page actions are hidden by default. They can be shown for a particular tab by calling pageAction.show(), passing in the tab’s ID.

Look into this if you want to display your page action into every page.

andreip · May 13, 2017, 2:41pm

Awesome! Thank you @Kenny_D it works!!!

Now one more thing: why does it not show the page action on Android Firefox? I use Firefox 55. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

Kenny_D · May 13, 2017, 2:52pm

Not sure about that because according to this, it should be in Firefox Android 50+

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Browser_support_for_JavaScript_APIs#pageAction

andreip · May 13, 2017, 3:50pm

I only run Nightly… so I am on v55