[DISCUSSION] Page Action v Browser Action

[RoiArthurB]

@Jackymancs4 I'm wondering about the choice of Page Action v Browser Action... 🤔 🤔

I mean, it looks absurd to have the plugin as a page action if it apply on every page.. It turns to be a Browser action finally, or in my sense it does 🤔

I wanted to have your point of view on that, what do you think?

[Jackymancs4]

Quoting from: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/user_interface/Page_actions

Use a page action when the action is related to the current page, and a browser action when the action is related to the browser as a whole or too many pages.

The way I see it is that it doesn't matter on how many pages it does apply, but the fact that the action modify every time only the specific page you are visiting.

if it apply on every page

It doesn't have to be this way. You could as an example filter out https://whereisscihub.now.sh/ since it does not make sense to allow the extension on that page (we know for sure it's not a research paper).