CODEWITHSUNDEEP
google-chromegoogle-chrome-extension
sharno
sharno

Reputation: 720

Force chrome tabs to crash

I'm trying to make an extension that crashes all tabs in chrome window so that they don't load on opening chrome (when having too many tabs).

But when I try to use

chrome.tabs.update(null, {url:"chrome://crash"})

or

chrome.tabs.update(null, {url:"about:crash"})

they don't work, although using

chrome.tabs.update(null, {url:"chrome://tasks"})

works well

Is there any workaround to do that?

when this works too I'd like to loop on all the open tabs to do the same thing and I don't know how.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1905

Answers (1)

AbdullahDiaa
AbdullahDiaa

Reputation: 1336

you can simply getAll active windows and loop through its tabs then change its url to data:text/html

chrome.windows.getAll({populate : true}, function (window_list) {
    var list = [];
    for(var i=0;i<window_list.length;i++) {
        list = list.concat(window_list[i].tabs);
    }
    for(var y=0;y<list.length;y++) {
         var jsRunner = {'code': 'window.stop()'};
         chrome.tabs.executeScript(list[y].id, jsRunner);
            if(!list[y].url.match(/data\:text\/html/gi)){
                chrome.tabs.update(list[y].id, {url:"data:text/html,<meta charset=\"utf-8\"><title>" + list[y].title + "</title><h1 style='text-align:center;'><a style='text-decoration:none;' href='" + list[y].url + "'>" + list[y].url + "</a></h1>"});
            }
    }
});

you can download the extension and try it http://d.pr/f/wXaZ

Upvotes: 3

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