How to open chrome extension popup automatically?

[Sajjad Akhtar]

I am creating chrome extension using React JS. I want that when user visits any website my chrome extension should open.

[PhistucK]

The popup that shows up when you click on the extension toolbar icon cannot be opened in any other way.

However, you can create a normal popup window, or add HTML to every page to show your stuff (or open a side panel perhaps, not sure) instead.

☆PhistucK

On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 11:12 AM Sajjad Akhtar <sajjada...@gmail.com> wrote:

I am creating chrome extension using React JS. I want that when user visits any website my chrome extension should open.

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[Sajjad Akhtar]

okay, Thanks

[Zayn Shaheen]

Hi !
Can I open an extension using option from the contex minu (that one which appers when press right click anywhere in the page)? Because this seem to be directly related to the extension, so I hope that it able to open the popup...

[PhistucK]

As far as I know, there is no API for opening the popup, so there is no way to open it except by clicking on (or pressing via the keyboard) the button.

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[Patrick Kettner]

Correct, with the caveat that there is chrome.action.openPopup, but at present that is only available to extensions installed via policy.

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[PhistucK]

Oh, good to know. Why is it not spelled out in the linked section, though?

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[Patrick Kettner]

Just an oversight. I opened an issue for this a few days ago, but this portion of the documentation is generated from Chrome's source and due to the holidays it will be a little bit before it is updated.

[Gaurang Tandon]

Hi Patrick, can you share when is it planned to update chrome.action.openPopup to not require a policy install? I checked the linked issue https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40057101 and I couldn't find any mentions of removing the policy restriction.

[Oliver Dunk]

Hi Gaurang,

There isn't a timeline for this I'm afraid. It is something we all want (I was very keen as a developer before I joined Google!) but we need to make sure the API is ready and in particular that we address some security concerns we had with the initial implementation.

We're continuing to work on that and will definitely shout as soon as something is available!

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[Gaurang Tandon]

Thanks for the quick response! 🙂 I look forward to the API availability.

[PhistucK]

And only when experimental extension APIs are enabled...

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On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 1:05 PM Patrick Kettner <patrick...@google.com> wrote:

[Jackie Han]

chrome.action.openPopup() is available on Chrome 127 (without policy)

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[PhistucK]

And without a command line flag?

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[Jackie Han]

Yes, I think so.

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40057101#comment35

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/whats-new#chrome_127_new_actionopenpopup_api

[PhistucK]

Nice, thank you!

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[Oliver Dunk]

Yes, as Jackie mentioned we are finally launching this in Chrome 127! I'm excited.

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