Category: Understanding Chrome Extensions
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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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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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13 Understanding Chrome Extensions Alarms
The chrome.alarms API is an API use to schedule code to execute at a preset time and/or periodically. See the Chrome Alarms…
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14 Understanding Chrome Extensions Notifications
The chrome notifications API is responsible for displaying different types of what is called rich notifications in your users’ system…
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15 Understanding Chrome Extensions GCM
The chrome.gcm API to enable the extensions to send and receive messages via Firebase’s Cloud Messaging (FCM). Official Documentation here: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/api/gcm What is…
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16 Understanding Chrome Extensions Cookies
The chrome.cookies API enables extensions to create, retrieve, edit and remove cookies from a specific and/or all domains. You can see Google…