detect when my extension is installed, upgraded, uninstalled

[Dru Jensen]

I am trying to capture events for install, upgrade and uninstall.
Firefox provides this capability but I can't seem to find a way to do
this with a Chrome extension.

The chrome.management package has an onInstalled and onUninstalled
events but they do not trigger for my extension. They only trigger if
I add a new extension.

I want to add a new tab and present a thank you page, upgrade page,
and uninstall page on these events.

[Daniel Wagner-Hall]

The standard way of doing this is to write a value to localStorage,
e.g. localStorage["version"] = 0.1

You can tell if the extension has just been installed if the value is
undefined, or if it has just been upgraded if the value is different
from expected. There currently isn't a way of doing onUninstalled,
though I think there's a bug filed for it on http://crbug.com

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[jkjeldgaard]

Using Daniel Wagner-Hall's solution I open the options page when the
extension is installed:

in background.html:

if (localStorage["version"] == undefined)
chrome.tabs.create({url: "options/index.html"});

On Nov 2, 5:19 pm, Dru Jensen <drujen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to capture events for install, upgrade and uninstall.
> Firefox provides this capability but I can't seem to find a way to do
> this with a Chrome extension.
>

> The chrome.management package has anonInstalledand onUninstalled