[Feature] Add option to access extension through an icon at the end of the address bar

[beesyrupfactory]

On Firefox, the way to access the extension is through the extension icon or through the right click context menu.

I am a Chrome to Firefox convert, and I miss the "Translate" icon being at the end of the address bar. This allows for quick acquisition (especially if there are a lot of in my menu bar extensions) and allows for a consistent placement on all pages visited.

TWP has this functionality, and I think it would be a nice way to interact with the Linguist extension. Of course, the popout that displays can remain the same, but it would be nice to show a glowing icon to demonstrate that the extension is active and translating, and a grey icon to show that it is not translating anything (i.e., Original).

Here's an example from TWP's github page:

[vitonsky]

Hi, sometimes people create issues with this proposal, but i don't see why we really needs this icon on URL bar.
The fact that some another extension have the feature is not mean this feature useful and does not explain why this feature needs for Linguist.

It's easy to implement, but as contributor, I can't bloat a features just to copy another extensions. To be honest, i still sure the other extensions for translation are bad - they are does not respect users privacy, does not have powerful features Linguist have and they have not user friendly UI. This is why i don't want to copy a features of bad extensions just because they have greater users than Linguist.

If you can justify the feature you propose, i will implement it, feel free to read issue #388 and return back here to talk about why this feature needs for Linguist users.

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I am a Chrome to Firefox convert, and I miss the "Translate" icon being at the end of the address bar. This allows for quick acquisition (especially if there are a lot of in my menu bar extensions) and allows for a consistent placement on all pages visited.

With Firefox you can move extension icons, just move icon to a tab bar, to solve the described problem.

[beesyrupfactory]

Hi @vitonsky,

Thanks for taking the time to respond and being open to discussion. I see your perspective that it can be considered bloat. I apologize as I didn't see #388 prior to creating this feature request or the reasons behind why the FR was previously rejected.

From my testing, Linguist is great and accurate. I appreciate your approach to a more privacy-centric translation extension. Privacy was my exact rationale for moving away from Chrome/Chromium in the first place. However, the second part of the journey was finding a good translation extension. Given the privacy stance, my personal rationale is that the ability to show the translate button in the address bar allows for easier adoption of Firefox + Linguist extension for translation needs. My intention is to determine if it was possible to help switch over as many people to Firefox as easily as possible from Chrome or Chromium-based browsers. Currently, you are permitted to execute the translation from the right-click context menu, or the extension icon in the toolbar. You can choose to enable both, or one or the other.

Perhaps it's "muscle memory" of finding the translation icon within the toolbar hasn't left me yet after using Chrome for nearly a decade. While it won't be impossible to relearn this behavior, I figure adoption may improve for long-term Chrome refugees like me 😄