Page actions are a simple way to represent actions that can be taken on a page ("Email this page", "Share with Facebook", etc).
Page actions are displayed in the right side of the Omnibox. New actions get added to the left of the star:
A maximum of 8 (?) actions can appear at the top level, any additional ones overflow into a drop-down menu:
Developers can include page actions in the manifest using the following syntax:
"page_actions": [ { "id": "myaction", // chosen by developer, and should be unique within their extension "name": "Do action", "icons": ["favicon.png", "favicon2.png"] } ]
Supported icon image formats include for example png, bmp, ico, jpg, gif. If an image larger than 16x16 is specified, it will be resized to fit.