Chrome browser Action click not working

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Prerak Kaushik

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Oct 29, 2010, 4:13:47 AM10/29/10

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Hello,

This is my manifest.json file

{


  "name": "My First Extension",


  "version": "1.0",


  "description": "The first extension that I made.",


  "background_page": "background.html",


  "browser_action": 


 {


     "default_icon": "icon.png"


 },


  "permissions" : [


    "tabs"


  ]


}

This is the background.html

<html>


  <head>


    <script>

 //Supposed to Called when the user clicks on the browser action icon.

  chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(function(tab)


    {


                console.log('I am clicked');


    }


    );



    </script>


  </head>


</html>

i opened the java script console in chrome and then clicked on the browser action icon but nothing was written on the console.

I believe the event handler is not getting called or not getting registered.

Please advise

Thanks

Prerak K.

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Finnur Thorarinsson

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Oct 29, 2010, 5:28:35 AM10/29/10

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It all looks good to me. I suspect the problem is that you are opening the console to inspect the web page and not the background page. Try this:

Go to chrome://extensions

Make sure the Developer Mode section is expanded

Find your extensions

Click the background.html link within it.

Then press the browser action button again. I'm sure it will now trigger the log to appear.

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