Tab hover event in chrome - google-chrome-extension

Does chrome extensions api provide an event for hovering with your mouse on tabs ? I'm unable to find it in the docs, or maybe there is an undocumented way ?

Seems there is no way of doing this currently. I hope they add it !

Looking at the docs for Chrome extension development, there doesn't seem to be an onHover() event for tabs at the moment. This needs to come out!

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Retrieve History of a specific Tab in chrome [duplicate]

I am developing a little extensions called "Tab Bundler", which in short saves all the open tabs in a window into a bundle that can be opened with the click of a button. When a bundle is opened however, no history of how the user got to that url is saved, ie. the user can't click back to see how they got to that url. This is functionality I want to implement. I looked for a while, googling, looking thoroughly through the google chrome extension documentation: http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/history.html. But I couldn't figure out how to get this information without tracking it myself. Is that the only option I have? Any thoughts would be really appreciated.
Thanks!
Look, many people tried this before. You are not alone in this quest!
At the moment the answer in Google Code was: anybody asked for it when they where developing the History API. Then there's no elegant way to access tabs' history.
Of course, you can hook chrome.tabs.onUpdated to record every page and make your own tab's history...
You could probably hook chrome.tab.onUpdate as well as some state or focus change hook to correlate.
I really want this, please make it!

Offer to change the default search engine for the omnibar

I'm looking to offer the user (inside my Chrome Extension) the option to change their Omnibox default search engine.
Sadly, I've been unable to find any documentation on how to do something like this. Has anyone does this before successfully?
Actually with new versions of chrome it's possible through chrome API via settings_override section. But for now it's working only on windows.
Not possible, sadly. See this bug filed in Chromium

How to programmatically toggle the console panel from a custom developer tools Chrome extension?

Is there a way to programmatically toggle the console from inside a custom devtools panel?
What's happening is that on the stock panels, you can press Esc to toggle the bottom console panel; but it seems that inside a custom devtools panel, this doesn't work.
The fallback would be to catch the key press and toggle it programmatically but I can't figure out how to do the second part.
I dug through some of the "official" code for devtools and found the _toggleConsoleButtonClicked method attached to the WebInspector object but I can't find how to access that object from my context.
Any pointers would be appreciated!
For context, I'm working with the Backbone devtools extension.
PS: there are more keyboard shortcuts that stop working. Things like Ctrl/Cmd+[number] to switch to a different panel, Ctrl/Cmd+R to reload the page. That might mean that it's more of a feature request for Chrome than something I'm missing. In the meantime, if you have ideas for some of these, I'll take them!
You have to enable Developer Mode in chrome://extensions/. Here is a nice tutorial to debug Chrome extensions http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/tut_debugging.html
I found this issue relative to your question:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=445240
I don't know where is it now...

Chrome extension to focus on omnibox?

Is there a way to focus on the omnibox, either using the ExecuteScript or the Omnibox API? I don't think its possible but can anyone think of a work around?
Sorry, currently not possible.

Chrome Extension - Get Tab Preview Images

I'm developing a chrome extension. I need to get a preview image for each tab. How can I do this?
The Tab API has captureVisibleTab functionthat you can use:
http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/tabs.html#method-captureVisibleTab
Do a simple search on stackoverflow to see how it works, I have answered many people regarding that feature.
If you want to alter that image after you capture it, then you can use HTML Canvas to do so.
Hope that helped

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