Getting the current extension's ID?

[Julien Genestoux]

Hey,

Is there a convenient way to get either the current extension object (from a backhround page), or the id?

Right now, I use chrome.extension.getURL("/") and then extract the URI, but that's quite a hack. Also, I could hard code this, but I don't think it's good practice... so, any other solution?

Thanks!

julien

[Mihai Parparita]

There is an @@extension_id predefined message, see
http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/i18n.html#overview-predefined
for more information.

Mihai

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[Julien Genestoux]

Thanks Mihai,

That was perfect :)

[gark...@gmail.com]

This old wrong answer was in top of google search results, so ill do a little necro.

You must use chrome.runtime.id for this purposes, as described in docs:
http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/runtime.html#property-id

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