I'm opening this issue to track it properly. In short:

1. Open https://github.com/refined-github/refined-github/blob/main/source/features/action-used-by-link.tsx
2. Visit a folder or change file via the sidebar or go back and forth

Known issues

• turbo:render isn't called
• popstate events don't trigger any turbo:render nor soft-nav:render
• the view isn't generated from scratch, so previous elements stick around

Related issues

• download-folder-button duplicated #6414
• rgh-feature-descriptions only works when opened in a new page #6528
• All the linked issues in the conversation below

Current status

For the whole existence of Refined GitHub, we've relied on GitHub to delete our elements when the page/URL changes, with one exception (I don't remember which). New React-based views break this assumption. I think we need to:

• listen to soft-nav:render
• listen to popstate and avoid duplicates calls in case soft-nav:render is also fired
• figure out a way to make widgets/buttons dynamic so that they change or disappear when the URL changes
  • this could help, but that alone doesn't fit into our concept of "feature unloading when pages change": A brief investigation of using SolidJS #6493
  • maybe we could add a onAbort(() => element.remove())
    • edit: I tried it, but if an rgh-seen element is still on the page, it won't be seen again.