chrome-extension:// links open about:blank

[Josh Bjelovuk]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20019829/chrome-extension-links-open-aboutblank

Anybody know why this is happening all of a sudden or have a fix?

[Shane Weng]

I also try this sample extension (https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/examples/extensions/oauth_contacts/manifest.json) , it also show about blank page. It was working before I updated to the new chrome version today.

[Paulie]

Yes I just checked my extension I have the same issue. Looks like a bug to me. You could use message passing to the background page and then open the page from there. I have posted this suggestion to your question on stackoverflow. 

One fix if you don't have too many links to open could be to send a message to the background page and then call a function from within the background page to open your window.

I checked and both and chrome.tabs.create and the standard javascript window.open will open an html file in the extension.

[Chuck Han]

I can open a chrome extension with the following code on localhost, but can't do it if the code is not on localhost:

<button onclick="window.open('chrome-extension://pdeelgamlgannhelgoegilelnnojegoh/index.html')">test</button>

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance, Chuck

On Monday, November 18, 2013 4:08:34 PM UTC-8, Josh Bjelovuk wrote:

[Josh Bjelovuk]

The web accessible resources solution from Stack Overflow solved this for me.

[Shane Weng]

You may try getURL instead:

  string chrome.extension.getURL(string path)