Active tab not working when using multiple Chrome windows.

[Assaf]

This is my extension:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-analytics-url-buil/gaidpiakchgkapdgbnoglpnbccdepnpk

It takes your current/active tab URL and does something...

The problem is, that when there are several open Chrome windows, the "active" tab is a wrong one.

Example:

I have 3 tabs in one Chrome window. Each tab shows a different URL, i.e. URL1, URL2, URL3.

URL 2 is the active tab. 

Now I drag tab 3 (with URL3) out of Chrome to create a new Chrome window which contains only one tab (URL3)

On this new window, I click the extension button, and instead of takign URL3 as the active one, it takes URL2 !

Weird...how it can be solved?

[Rob Wu]

When I look in your extension's source code, I see

     chrome.tabs.query({
         active: true
     }, function callback(tabs) {
         //set first input to url of active tab
         document.forms[0].elements[0].value = tabs[0].url;

This is wrong, if there are multiple windows, then the number of active tabs is greater than 1. Add currentWindow:true to get the active tab in the currently activated window.

Kind regards,

 Rob

 https://robwu.nl

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