Category: Understanding Chrome Extensions
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1 Understanding Chrome Extensions for Beginners
Building a Chrome extension involves several key components. Here are the main ones: Popup UI (web): Think of it as…
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2 Understanding Chrome Extensions Manifest.json
When diving into the world of Chrome extensions, the manifest.json file is your essential roadmap. It’s the cornerstone that defines your extension’s…
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3 Understanding Chrome Extensions Content Scripts
Content scripts are a powerful feature of Chrome extensions that allow you to run JavaScript code in the context of…
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4 Understanding Chrome Extensions Background Scripts
Simply put background scripts are service workers JavaScript files that handle the extensions main events. They operate independent of a webpage and/or…
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6 Understanding Chrome Extensions Permissions
In this article we are going to looking at declaring permissions for chrome extensions. Permissions are declared in the manifest.json file to…
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7 Understanding Chrome Extensions Web Accessible Resources
Web Accessible Resources are files within your chrome extension that web pages and other external extensions can have access it to.…
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9 Understanding Chrome Extensions Tabs
The chrome.tabs API is used for interacting with your browser tabs. You can do all sort of this with this API from…
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25 Understanding Chrome Extensions OAuth
By using the chrome.identity API it enables use to identify/retrieve signed-in users, authenticate via Google OAuth or other social OAuth options, get…
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10 Understanding Chrome Extensions Windows
In this article we are going to look at the chrome.windows API. Its an API used for interacting with the browser windows.…
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11 Understanding Chrome Extensions Context Menus
Context Menu is the menu that appears when a user right clicks (alternative clicks) on an element in a webpage. In this…