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

[andreip]

Hi,

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

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

What am I doing wrong?
Thank you

[Kenny_D]

According to this:

page_action - Mozilla | MDN

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.

tabs - Mozilla | MDN

[andreip]

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]

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]

I only run Nightly… so I am on v55