Option to only run Wappalyzer on demand (menu/icon click etc.)

[kernc]

I don't want Wappalyzer to scan all websites I visit. I'd be a nice option to have it only scan a certain website when I choose to.

[AliasIO]

Detection wouldn't work too well this way, i.e. response headers can only be analysed before a page is loaded and many JavaScript are fired on page load. Wappalyzer used to have this feature but I removed it, partially for this reason but also to keep the add-on code simpler and the fact that few people used it.

Can you expand on why you think this would be a good feature to have?

[gadcam]

But we can maybe store header and environnement variables in a sort of cache untill you change of page, no?

[kernc]

So does Web Developer make another request when one clicks Information>ViewResponseHeaders ?

Rationale-wise, I just kind of hate all the newly icons in location/add-on bar, and the fact that on every page load hundreds of RegExes and logic is fired. Firefox is slow as it is. :P
On the other hand, if the currently necessary restart would be made non-required (issue #193), then I could simply disable the add-on and enable it when I have thorough examination to do...

[AliasIO]

Yes most add-ons make another request. If you use Firebug you have probably noticed the Net tab is empty unless Firebug is open when you request the page.

You can turn the applications icons off in the settings. It will only show the main icon.

Perhaps I'll add a "pause" button until we have a restartless version.

[q--]

Of course, you can also use the bookmarklet if you don't want to have the icons shown all the time.

[AliasIO]

That's a good point actually, the bookmarklet does exactly what you want. It re-requests the page on click to get around the response header issue.

[kernc]

That's superb! I didn't even know about the bookmarklet. Thank you. 😃 Issue closed.