I'm building my first chrome extension, which replaces the New Tab. I'm trying to change the icon and name of the tab with:
"short_name": "New Tab",
"browser_action": {
"default_icon": "img/icon32.png"
}
but all I see in the actual tab's header is "chrome://newtab" and no icon. What am I doing wrong?
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I want to know that, is it possible to open popup on right click and redirect to some website on left click in a chrome extension.
If i am adding popup.html in manifest under page_action properties, then my background.js scripts not working, only popup opens.
My manifest.json file is below
{
"name" : "Sherlock Extension",
"description" : "Sherlock extension for drop alert datasource
integration",
"version" : "1.2.3",
"manifest_version": 2,
"page_action": {
"default_icon": "icon.png",
"default_popup" : "popup.html"
},
"background": {
"scripts": ["lzString.min.js", "background.js"],
"persistent": false
},
"permissions" : [
"storage",
"tabs",
"https://sherlock.reports.mn/api/v1",
"declarativeContent"
]}
There's no event you can intercept on right-click on the extension Browser/Page Action. It will open a context menu.
Notes:
You can add your own entries to that context menu with chrome.contextMenus API.
Having a default_popup overrides all onClicked listeners; if you want to both open a popup and do something in background, you'll need to call the background from the popup.
I'm developing a Chome extension. When you click on the extension icon, the contextMenu is accessible by a right-click and a left-click.
Actually, I don't have a browserAction in my manifest.json, so my problem is my icon is grayed out. The solution is to add a browserAction. But if I add a browserAction, the left-click don't show the default menu, but shows nothing.
What I want is a colored icon and when I left-click that the default Chrome extension popup is opened.
Default Chrome Extension popup example:
My manifest.json
{
"manifest_version": 2,
"name": "Awesome app",
"version": "0.1",
"background": {
"scripts": ["background.js"],
"persistent": true
},
"permissions": [
"storage",
"contextMenus"
],
"icons": {
"16": "icons/se16.png",
"32": "icons/se32.png",
"158": "icons/se158.png"
}
}
Can someone help me?
It's not possible to have the default menu AND a colorful icon because the very presence of "browser_action" key means the extension wants to interact with the user and instructs the browser to either delegate icon click event to background page script in chrome.browserAction.onClicked listener or show a popup window if "default_popup" is declared in manifest or the popup was set programmatically via chrome.browserAction.setPopup.
The only way to "ignore" the click event in browserAction API is to disable the icon via chrome.browserAction.disable which will gray it out thus defeating the initial goal.
Well, you can show/do something useful on click. The default menu isn't very useful, anyway.
When the browserAction icon is clicked for my Chrome extension, I want to prevent it from showing the browserAction popup. I'm trying to use the browserAction icon to trigger the loading of a content script instead.
How would I do this?
The following doesn't prevent it from opening:
chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(function (tab) {
alert('browserAction clicked');
return false;
});
Here is my manifest.json entry for this:
"browser_action": {
"default_icon": {
"19": "images/icon-19.png",
"38": "images/icon-38.png"
},
"default_title": "My extension"
}
The docs say This event will not fire if the browser action has a popup, however, as you can see I don't have a popup defined but it still doesn't work.
When you press the extension button, the following happens.
If you have a popup defined for the current tab (e.g. by the default_popup key in the manifest or chrome.browserAction.setPopup), it is shown. The chrome.browserAction.onClicked is not raised.
If the popup is not set (or set as empty) for the current tab, chrome.browserAction.onClicked is dispatched.
So, to disable this permanently, you just need to remove default_popup from the manifest. To disable it programmatically, you need to unset it:
chrome.browserAction.setPopup({
popup: "",
// tabId: id // optional, restrict to a single tab
});
I successfully created my first Chrome extension. It now runs only when the extension icon is clicked instead of on the background, and that is great. However, I would like to add more actions to my extension I have been trying to use an extension popup to run other functions but I can't make it work. It doesn't have to be like that, so I am open for suggestions. I do not want to use context menus. I want people to click on the extension icon and show them a "menu".
Right now my extension only alerts a message when it finds a valid page (from mydomain.com), and it finds a hidden field with the name "returnURL". It alerts the value.
I would like to be able to add the ability to click on the icon but instead show an options menu with multiple options.
Something like this:
Click on the extension icon and show two options
Get Response URL (this option will run the current functionality I have now)
Do something else (So I could have another function to execute on the
loaded page)
...and more options if I needed to add them on future versions of my extension.
How do I modify my extension to do that.
Here is my code:
manifest.json
{
"name": "Get Response URL",
"version": "1.0",
"manifest_version": 2,
"browser_action": {
"default_icon": "mkto_icon.png",
"name": "Click to get URL"
},
"background":{
"scripts":["background.js"]
},
"permissions":["http://mydomain.com/*"]
}
background.js
chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(function (tab) { //Fired when User Clicks ICON
if (tab.url.indexOf("http://mydomain.com/") != -1) { // Inspect whether the place where user clicked matches with our list of URL
chrome.tabs.executeScript(tab.id, {
"file": "contentscript.js"
}, function () { // Execute your code
console.log("Script Executed .. "); // Notification on Completion
});
}
});
contentscript.js
if (document.getElementsByName("returnURL")){
alert("\nThe Response URL on this form is:\n\n" + document.getElementsByName("returnURL")[0].value);
}
I followed the documentation I found on the Google Extensions developer site but I couldn't make it work. Your help is much appreciated.
You cannot have a real menu with a Chrome extension. You can however show an HTML page when the button is clicked (a pop-up). You can style this HTML page in a way that looks similar to a menu:
"browser_action": {
"default_icon": "mkto_icon.png",
"default_title": "Click here to open menu",
"default_popup": "popup.html"
},
Add a file popup.html to you extension and whatever content you want to show up. Scripts loaded by the pop-up page can load content scripts and communicate with them just like the background page.
For reference: browser actions documentation.
Is there a way to add a page_action in an extension that already implements browser_action?
I'd like to use the browser_action to display a popup with a list of bookmarks while use the page_action to give the user a way to bookmark the current page and load it in the list.
You can only have one among app, browser_action, page_action and theme in your manifest till date. So, you can not have browser action and page action together.
// Pick one (or none)
"browser_action": {...},
"page_action": {...},
"theme": {...},
"app": {...},
Work Around
Use two different Extensions with cross extension message communication.
References
Manifest File