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Siddharth
Siddharth

Reputation: 7156

Disable popup and call browserAction.onClicked

I am making a Chrome extension with a "default_popup":"popup.html".

Documentation of chrome.browserAction.onClicked says:

Fired when a browser action icon is clicked. This event will not fire if the browser action has a popup.

I know browserAction.onClicked will not fire in my extension. But can i disable popup so that browserAction.onClicked can fire?

Conclusion : While my extension is running, I want to disable popup and have a chrome.browserAction.onClicked in my background.jsso that later some time I can call browserAction.onClicked. Is it possible? How? Also I would like to know If I can do the reverse meaning disable browserAction.onClicked and enable popup.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 852

Answers (1)

Xan
Xan

Reputation: 77502

You can disable the popup (automatically enabling the dispatch of onClicked events) by setting the popup path to an empty string:

chrome.browserAction.setPopup({popup: ""});

Likewise, you can enable the popup afterwards by providing a valid path:

chrome.browserAction.setPopup({popup: "popup.html"});

You can keep a listener to onClicked regardless - it's just that the event is not always dispatched.

Please note: you can't have the popup disabled, capture the click and then show the popup - you can only change what happens at next click. If you want both a popup and some event in the background, it's best to simply message background from the popup.

Upvotes: 6

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