I am following the tutorial here: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/getstarted
Everything works apart from the pop-up when you click the icon.
I have tried downloading the finished code and also changing page_action to browser_action.
Is there some issue seeing the popup page when loading unpacked?
Go to chrome://extensions in your browser and then click on the Errors button lying on your unpacked extension, this will open a window which will display all the errors/ issues encountered while loading your extension.
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I'm develop Google Chrome extension, when i try to load a file to my extension, during the search for it in folder popup apparently lose focus and close. what I need is keeping the popup open during this process of select a file. how can I do that, working around the problem present in manifest 3.
I'm trying to have an extension click on another extension's icon and interact with the resulting popup. It seems straightforward but I haven't found anywhere that hints at how to do it.
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.
Thanks
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 new to Chrome extension development. I tried to follow the "hello world" debugging tutorial at http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/tut_debugging.html, but I couldn't find the inspect popup menu or inspect views link to open the debugger when I right-click on the "hello world" icon.
I noticed that in my chrome extension tab: chrome://chrome/extensions/, there is an "inspect views" link which enabled me to open a debugger for Google translate extension that I've installed before. However, the "inspect views" link didn't show up for "hello world" extension (source code: http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/examples/tutorials/getstarted.zip).
I have tried to search if someone has a similar problem but I couldn't find one. I'm using Google chrome 21.0.1180.60 for Windows XP.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions to open the debugger!
You are right... Try this:
Open the ext popup window by clicking on it
Right-click inside the displayed popup and choose the "Inspect Element" option
This will launch a dev tools instance for the popup.
For more details: http://samdutton.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/debugging-google-chrome-extensions/