chrome.create.tabs not working

**nabeca** · 09-27-2010, 08:30 AM

Hi,

My extension needs to find a link in the loaded facebook page, and then open this link in a new tab. I cannot get it work. Please help me locate what i am doing wrong.

contentscript.js

Code:

var regex = /facebook.com\/friends\//;

// Test the text of the body element against our regular expression.
if (regex.test(document.body.innerHTML)) {
   //I tried chrome.tabs.create as well
   chrome.tabs.createTab({'url': 'http://search.twitter.com/'}, function(){});
  // The regular expression produced a match, so notify the background page.
  chrome.extension.sendRequest({}, function(response) {});
} else {
  // No match was found.
}

Here is the manifest

Code:

{
  "name" : "Page action by content",
  "version" : "1.0",
  "description" : "Shows a page action for HTML pages containing the word 'sandwich'",
  "background_page" : "background.html",
  "permissions": [
  "tabs",
  "http://search.twitter.com/"
  ],
  "page_action" :
  {
    "default_icon" : "sandwich-19.png",
    "default_title" : "found something!"
  },
  "content_scripts" : [
    {
      "matches" : [
        "http://*/*",
        "https://*/*"
      ],
      "js" : ["contentscript.js"],
      "run_at" : "document_idle",
      "all_frames" : false
    }
  ],
  "icons" : {
    "48" : "sandwich-48.png",
    "128" : "sandwich-128.png"
  }
}

and here is the background.html

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<!--
 * Copyright (c) 2010 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.  Use of this
 * source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be found in the
 * LICENSE file.
-->
<html>
  <head>
    <script>
      // Called when a message is passed.  We assume that the content script
      // wants to show the page action.
      function onRequest(request, sender, sendResponse) {
        // Show the page action for the tab that the sender (content script)
        // was on.
        chrome.pageAction.show(sender.tab.id);

        // Return nothing to let the connection be cleaned up.
        sendResponse({});
      };

      // Listen for the content script to send a message to the background page.
      chrome.extension.onRequest.addListener(onRequest);
    </script>
  </head>
</html>

**nabeca** · 09-27-2010, 09:43 AM

Okay, I found what was wrong. i will share it here so people can see it, also it shows up in google queries.

Chrome.tabs.create not working, not opening problem.

You will have to cary the action from the contentscript.js file to the background.html. chrome.tabs.create can only be called from the background.html. It will not work in javascript files. so the new background.html file should look like this:

Code:

<html>
  <head>
    <script>
      // Called when a message is passed.  We assume that the content script
      // wants to show the page action.
      function onRequest(request, sender, sendResponse) {
        // Show the page action for the tab that the sender (content script)
        // was on.
        chrome.pageAction.show(sender.tab.id);
		
		chrome.tabs.create({"url":"http://www.google.com"}); 
        // Return nothing to let the connection be cleaned up.
        sendResponse({});
      };
	 
      // Listen for the content script to send a message to the background page.
      chrome.extension.onRequest.addListener(onRequest);
    </script>
  </head>
</html>

**thisisbasil** · 10-21-2010, 08:07 PM

im having a similar problem

i have a plugin that takes user input from a popup.html from the the toolbar, calls a NPAPI dll with the user input, and that dll creates a local XML file. i want to open a new tab with the generated XML file immediately after the retun from the NPAPI call. any ideas on how to do this?

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