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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17 Understanding Chrome Extensions Browsing Data
The chrome.browsingData API deals with removing browsing data from the local user’s browser. This includes caches, cookies, downloads, passwords, history and many more. You…
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18 Understanding Chrome Extensions Management
The chrome.management API enable the extensions to retrieve details and manage other installed extensions on the client’s browser. Essentially, the chrome.management can enable, disable…
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19 Understanding Chrome Extensions Commands
The chrome.commands API is used to enable the chrome extension run actions from keyboard shortcuts. You can bind a defined-command with a…
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20 Understanding Chrome Extensions Side Panel
By using the chrome.sidePanel API you can render your own HTML in the chrome browser’s side panel alongside the loaded website. Official…