Chrome extension page action appearing outside of address bar

Question

I wrote a Chrome Extension page action, with the following implementation:

In manifest.json:

  \"permissions\" : [
    \"declarativeContent\"
  ],
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Answer 1

It appears like this is the result of a new update to Chrome, with the developers probably reasoning that most users would not know that they had extensions installed otherwise.

Link to announcement: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!searchin/chromium-extensions/upcoming/chromium-extensions/7As9MKhav5E/dNiZDoSCCQAJ

It doesn't look like extension developers can do anything about this, but I really hope Google reverts this change.