Originally Posted by Waha

Remember that those are modifications to the actual Chrome code, and have more access to modifications than extensions do. ;P

However, Wicked, it is possible. You can use chrome.tabs.getAllInWindow to get the list of tabs in the window (and iterate through them to find the position of each, and which is focused (though there's a function to get what's focused, it'd be more efficient to just us this one, in my opinion)). And use chrome.tabs.update to change what tab is in focus.

Thanks for the info!

Hmm. It seems that chrome.tabs is undefined. I noticed something at the top of the Tab API page that mentioned assigning a permission for tabs in the extension... however, I am using a script... is there anything special I have to do?

I tried doing this with an extension and it still seems that chrome.tabs is undefined...

manifest.json

Code:

{
   "content_scripts": [ {
      "js": [ "ChromeGestures.js" ],
      "matches": [ 
                   "http://*/*",
                   "https://*/*"
                 ]
   } ],
  "permissions": [
    "tabs"
  ],
   "description": "Execute commands with a simple gesture.",
   "format_version": 1,
   "id": "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA3",
   "name": "ChromeGestures",
   "version": "0.1"
}

Seems that should be correct.

The line I am trying to call is this:

Code:

var tabs = chrome.tabs.getAllInWindow();

Any suggestions what might be wrong?

You can only use chrome APIs from background pages and toolstrips.
Note all gesture code has been moved to a background page in the latest version for this very reason.

Hi,
I have a question about all these mouse gestures extensions which exist for chrome: is it possible to open a link in a new tab with a mouse gesture? So that I can hover over a link and press the right mouse button and make a gesture and chrome opens the link in a new tab?
That's the only thing that prevents me from switching from opera to chrome, because that's a feature I don't want to miss (i have a mouse with no middle-click). Last time I looked for such a feature I could not find it, is it now possible?
Thanks in advance for your replies,
Capsad

I'm sure there was such an extension but i cannot find it

What you can do is ctrl+click, or simply drag the link to the tab bar...

Hi,
thanks for your reply, yex but I don't want to press CTRL when I want to open an new tab and I would like to open the tab in background - when I drag it to the tab bar it's in the foreground :/
Capsad

@capsad
Ok, I made you an Autohotkey script that opens link in background tab on double right click

Code:

~RButton::
Send {Escape}
   If (A_PriorHotKey = A_ThisHotKey and A_TimeSincePriorHotkey < 500) {
      if WinActive("ahk_class Chrome_WindowImpl_0") {
	Send, ^{LButton}
	Send, {Escape}
	}

   }
else  Send {RButton} 
return

@capsad

nkGestures (http://code.google.com/p/nk-gesture/downloads/list) has such a feature, its called 'drag and drop' ...

By simply holding the mouse over the link and holding down the left mouse button and moving (dragging) the mouse in any direction it will open the link in a new tab ...