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Jake Messing

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Oct 15, 2017, 6:09:45 PM10/15/17
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I'm working on creating an extension that opens chrome://restart so that i can quickly restart the browser. i am pretty sure that i want it in a new tab but it dost seem to be working. I'm fairly new to this. I have two different versions and i'm not sure what to use.

{
  "manifest_version": 2,

  "name": "Restart",
  "description": "A quick way to restart your Chrome browser.",
  "version": "1.0",

  "browser_action": {
    "default_icon": "icon.png",
"default_title": "Restart"

  },
  
  "permissions": [
    "activeTab",
"tabs"
  "background": {
"scripts": ["background.js"]

   chrome.tabs.create(object createProperties, function callback)
  );
);
  ]
}

or this 

{
  "manifest_version": 2,

  "name": "Restart",
  "description": "A quick way to restart your Chrome browser.",
  "version": "1.0",

  "browser_action": {
    "default_icon": "icon.png",
"default_title": "Restart"

  },
  
  "permissions": [
    "activeTab",
"tabs"
  "background": {
"scripts": ["background.js"]

chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(function(tab) {
    chrome.tabs.query({active: true, currentWindow: true}, function(tabs) {
    var activeTab = tabs[0];
    chrome.tabs.sendMessage(activeTab.id, {"message": "clicked_browser_action"});
chrome.runtime.onMessage.addListener(
    function(request, sender, sendResponse) {
    if( request.message === "open_new_tab" ) {
      chrome.tabs.create({"url": chrome://restart});
  );
);
  ]
}

PhistucK

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Oct 16, 2017, 12:30:20 AM10/16/17
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I guess you mixed manifest.json code and background.js code for brevity?

Content scripts cannot use chrome.tabs and you are sending a message to a content script (that you did not define) and listen to that message in the background page - it will never reach it.

In your first example, there is not real code, just the signature of chrome.tabs.create.


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Jake Messing

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Oct 16, 2017, 3:07:48 AM10/16/17
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Okay so are you able to help me out with the code?


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PhistucK

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Oct 16, 2017, 3:34:30 AM10/16/17
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I would expect chrome.tabs.create({url: "chrome://restart"}); to work. If it does not work, then I guess Chrome is intentionally blocking this.


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Jake Messing

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Oct 16, 2017, 3:42:31 AM10/16/17
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Attached is what I have. Are you able to see whats going on and why it dosnt work?


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manifest.json

PhistucK

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Oct 16, 2017, 3:59:54 AM10/16/17
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Your manifest is wrong.
manifest.json cannot contain code. It is a JSON file.
background.js should contain this code. Did you try to load/run your extension at all? It would not work as it stands.


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Devlin Cronin

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Oct 16, 2017, 1:19:17 PM10/16/17
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Unfortunately, Chrome does block this.  See crbug.com/508192.


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