simple question about the ability of chrome extensions.
Is it possible to for example hit an extension button and write the url (or other content of a page) to an endpoint of a open tab. For example, tab 1 is a web application that gathers bookmarks (so not locally stored) and if I hit a button in tab 3 I want to make a POST call to tab 1. Or can something like this be achieved by storing information in the Chrome storage which can then be read by the application in tab 1?
So quite simply:
tab 1 (:web application) - gets POST request -> tab 3 (:just a web page) through the click of a button of an active extension. I know if this would exist it could lead to some security issues, hence the question.
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Chrome DevTools has a handy inspector for Local Storage and Session Storage, but is there nothing to inspect chrome.storage.sync?
chrome://sync-internals/ doesn't seem to display the actual contents of the synchronized storage per extension.
Storage Area Explorer extension provides a UI for viewing, editing, clearing, importing and exporting of chrome.storage.local, chrome.storage.sync, localStorage and sessionStorage.
In the future this feature may be implemented natively: https://crbug.com/848752.
Warning for ManifestV3: since devtools for service worker doesn't show storage, you'll have to open any visible page of your extension like the popup or options, right-click the page, then click "inspect", then go to Storage Explorer. If your extension doesn't have any visible pages, you can open chrome-extension://ID/manifest.json where ID is the id of the extension as shown in chrome://extensions page. Another method is to right-click any script from your extension in devtools (when you inspect the content script or service worker), then click "Open in a new tab". You can add a bookmark for this tab to open it quickly next time.
Visit chrome://sync-internals/
Click Sync Node Browser tab and wait for it to load (may give a blank screen or in progress cursor)
Click expansion triangle in the sidebar for Extension settings
Click on individual settings in the sidebar to see their values and other metadata
A poor workaround is to call get and obtain all the stored values. Of course, this doesn't let you conveniently edit them:
chrome.storage.sync.get(null, function callback(items) { console.log(items) });
Chrome DevTools has a handy inspector for Local Storage and Session Storage, but is there nothing to inspect chrome.storage.sync?
chrome://sync-internals/ doesn't seem to display the actual contents of the synchronized storage per extension.
Storage Area Explorer extension provides a UI for viewing, editing, clearing, importing and exporting of chrome.storage.local, chrome.storage.sync, localStorage and sessionStorage.
In the future this feature may be implemented natively: https://crbug.com/848752.
Warning for ManifestV3: since devtools for service worker doesn't show storage, you'll have to open any visible page of your extension like the popup or options, right-click the page, then click "inspect", then go to Storage Explorer. If your extension doesn't have any visible pages, you can open chrome-extension://ID/manifest.json where ID is the id of the extension as shown in chrome://extensions page. Another method is to right-click any script from your extension in devtools (when you inspect the content script or service worker), then click "Open in a new tab". You can add a bookmark for this tab to open it quickly next time.
Visit chrome://sync-internals/
Click Sync Node Browser tab and wait for it to load (may give a blank screen or in progress cursor)
Click expansion triangle in the sidebar for Extension settings
Click on individual settings in the sidebar to see their values and other metadata
A poor workaround is to call get and obtain all the stored values. Of course, this doesn't let you conveniently edit them:
chrome.storage.sync.get(null, function callback(items) { console.log(items) });
I will try to make this as short as possible. I am making a Chrome extension and I wanted to have an integrated settings tab so users can customize their experience. Now, I want this settings tab to be somewhat of an "extension" to an existing settings tab in a website. Let me explain.
The website I am talking about is Roblox.com, a popular gaming platform. When logged in, you have the ability to visit your settings, which look something like this:
Now, in order to navigate the different setting "tabs," you simply click on a button and it takes you to another change. The URL corresponding to each page is https://www.roblox.com/my/account#!/TAB_NAME, with TAB_NAME being the name of the tab. What I want to do is make my own "tab" where once the player clicks, it will bring them to a settings tab where they can tweak the extension's settings. This would look something like this:
I am fully aware on how to this (inject a button into the list and customize said button), but what I don't know what to do is make it so that once the button is clicked, it will not redirect you to another website, but will simply "switch tabs" like it would with any other setting. There is an extension that already does that called "Roblox+", where it adds a button to the list, and once clicked, it takes you to a similar-looking page with the URL https://www.roblox.com/my/account?tab=rplus#!/info. From my understanding, since the tab name isn't a header, the URL does not change, which allows for a custom webpage. Now, if you were to paste that URL in a browser without the extension, then it would simply redirect you to the "Account Info" tab (although the URL remains). Here is how the Roblox+ extension settings page looks like:
Now, from what I can assume, what happens is that right after the normal account information page is loaded, it removes all the HTML elements that are related to the account information tab and re-creates the entire page using custom HTML elements. That is something similar to what I want to do. Regardless of this, I do have one question. Is it possible to somehow "overwrite" a certain domain so that, let's say, the URL https://www.roblox.com/my/account#!/my_plugin_settings led to my custom page (even if that means that the page is made from an HTML file) instead of where it was supposed to lead? If that isn't possible, would it be better to create a custom settings page outside of the Roblox website or somehow inject my own into the current settings?
This is the question that I have. Hopefully I explained it well. If someone could assist me on this, then that would be amazing. Thank you for your time and help, I truly appreciate it.
My background page saves data about the current active tab to chrome.storage.local. For arguments sake lets say it's the page title. Multiple page titles will be in there if the user has multiple tabs open.
When the browser action button is clicked I want to open a new tab with my internal extension page showthedata.html (not an external URL) which will show the data saved for the active tab.
Ideally I'd want to open showthedata.html?tabID=123 which would then pull the corresponding data
I must be missing something basic, but how can showthedata.html show the data relating to the active tab?
If you use your extension's URI as the URL of your new tab, it will allow you to use the API's messaging and storage systems from your new tab.
Create a New Tab
chrome.tabs.create({url: "chrome-extension://<your_extension_id>/path/to/file.html"})
Once you get that set up, you can pass variables to or request variables from your new tab via the Chrome API messaging system or storage system (provided you've built the proper functionality into your extension's various parts).
Note: The chrome.tabs namespace is not accessible from within a Chrome tab. It must be called from either your background script(s) or popup.
I’ve been placing a page action on the options page of my Chrome extension. options.js calls chrome.runtime.connect({"name":"someName"}), and background.js has
chrome.runtime.onConnect.addListener(function(port) {
chrome.pageAction.show(port.sender.tab.id);
});
Unfortunately, in the new options_ui with the recommended default (and someday mandatory) "open_in_tab":false, the Sender's tab won't be set. Is there a way to get the tab id in order to show the page action?
I could use tabs.query to get the chrome://extensions/ tab, but that requires the tabs permission, which I currently don’t need. Active tab seems like it would work, but it doesn’t provide the tab id and isn’t enabled by opening an option dialog (source).
(Why do I want the page action on my options page? The extension works with a website that is only available ~7-10 weeks per year. I’d like my users to be able to interact with the extension the rest of the time, so that they can get used to the process. But I don’t want to adjust the displayed extension permissions just to do so. I can accomplish this by having the options page pretend to be the website in question.)