I am developing a chrome browser action extension. I want to be able to open chrome standalone window when i click a button in default action. How can I do that? And how can I stablish a communication between default action and the window?
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We have a software which uses a browser tab to hold the connection between client and server.
Users accidentally close the tab and have connection issues.
I want to program a Chrome extension which scans all new tabs. When this special tab is identified, I want to move this to a new window and hide this window, so that the user can't close the tab by mistake.
Is this possible with a Chrome extension?
Thanks.
I want to debug a chrome extension downloaded from chrome store. is it possible and how.
I have readium chrome extension and it is not working properly. I want to know why.
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If the extension run front-end scripts: right click on the page, Inspect > Sources tab > Content scripts tab. Then you can select the Chrome extension that not work correctly and add a breakpoint for example.
If the extension run back-end scripts: Go to this url: chrome://extensions then scroll to your extension and click on background page button. A popup will be opened and you can go to the sources tab and debug the script.
I have a chrome extension installed in my browser. When I click the extension's icon in the menu bar the extension opens as a floating pop-up, as expected.
What I am trying to do is to open the extension in Chrome via a link/shortcut/whatever from another program. As a first step I've tried opening the extension from the command line, ex:
chrome "chrome-extension://abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/index.html"
This works but the extension opens as a new tab and takes up a full broswer page instead of a just being a pop-up. Is there a way to open the extension as a pop-up on top of any open tabs?
Sadly, it's completely impossible.
There is an API in the works, but it would require at a minimum a user gesture, at a maximum explicit invocation of the extension.
So opening a link would not be enough, nor would a Native Message be.
you cant make the native extension popup to show programatically but you could use a content script that displays the popup (using the new for example) on the tab that you want.
I'm developing a Chrome browser extension that that has different menu links that go to different pages in the extension. I noticed each time the extension closes I have to navigate back to the last page I was on in the extension.
Is there a way to keep the last page I'm on current even if the extension window closes?
I have developed a google chrome extension and I have a badge on the icon that displays a number.
When I start the browser the badge is not displayed. So I think I have to load the extension when chrome browser was started.
Is that possible?
Code in a background page is executed when a new browser window is created.