Bring back the pageAction icon in address bar (omnibox).
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justwant...@gmail.com,
Dec 15
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Issue descriptionUserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/67.0.3396.99 Safari/537.36 Steps to reproduce the problem: x What is the expected behavior? What went wrong? x WebStore page: Did this work before? N/A Chrome version: 67.0.3396.99 Channel: n/a OS Version: 6.1 (Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2) Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 32.0 r0 Wait!! Read the details before banning! I know it is for security reason to give an persistent icon in toolbar for every extension, even for extensions with no action. So I suggest that we can have BOTH page action icon in toolbar and the pageAction icon in address bar (omnibox). And provide an option context menu of toolbar icon or option page of the extension to control whether show page action icon in omnibox or not. User can configure extension to show page action icon in omnibox and hide the toolbar icon to the application menu. Usually, page action is only useful when browsing certain web pages. At any other time the page action icon is just wasting toolbar space and confusing. Page action icon in omnibox show up only when applicable, so it won't waste toolbar space or won't cause confusion. Also, it is more intuitive than grayed-out or not toolbar button. User can know whether page action is applicable or not immediately. Related: http://crbug.com/590320
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Dec 16
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Jan 10
As per comment#0, it seems to be a feature request hence marking it as untriaged and requesting someone from the dev team to look into the issue. Thanks.!
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Jan 11
This isn't something we'll do. I can understand that there were definitely benefits to having page actions in the omnibox (and I personally rather miss the "cleanliness" of having the icons only shown when necessary), but there isn't an approach we've been able to come to that really allows that. We need persistent toolbar icons for security reasons (as you've mentioned), and the UX of having two icons for a single extension is confusing, and generally a no-go given real estate constraints. FWIW, we also experimented for awhile with popping extension icons out of the overflow menu when the page action was active on a page, but this turned out to be even more confusing. I'm sorry I don't have a better answer for you - I can empathize with the desire for the old design, but it's just realistically not something that will change in the near future. |
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Comment 1 by woxxom@gmail.com
, Dec 16