Thanks, will try that. On Dec 8, 9:29 pm, Mohamed Mansour <m...@chromium.org> wrote: > Yes, that effect is true, AFAIK every extension runs in its own isolated > world which contains its own html/js. So once you click on the browser > action icon, you should use the chrome API to get the URL of > the visited tab. To do so, you can > usehttp://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/browserAction.html#event-onC...for > example in your background.html page, you can do the following: > > chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(function(tab) { > console.log("URL: " + tab.url); > > > > }); > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Daniel Khuong <dani...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm doing that right now and it returns the path to my test file instead of > > the url of the page I'm currently viewing. > > > For example, if I'm on the page ofwww.amazon.com, and I click on my > > browser action icon, with this line of code: > > document.writeln(window.location); > > > I get this return value, instead of 'www.amazon.com': > > chrome-extension://gfaicebfdaponcbjcedgbjiicfgplkef/test.html > > > Thanks. > > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Mohamed Mansour <m...@chromium.org> wrote: > > >> Without content scripts, can't you just do? > >> javascript:alert(window.location) > > >> Unless you mean the URL of the current extension: > >>http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/extension.html#method-getURL > >> <http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/extension.html#method-getURL> > > >> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:19 PM, dk_man <dani...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>> As a newbie to Chrome extension development, I'm curious to know if > >>> there is a way to access the properties of the current document being > >>> viewed without the need to create contents scripts. For example, if I > >>> want my extension to access the location of the document that is > >>> currently being viewed, I can use 'content.document.location' for > >>> Mozilla, but is there an equivalent way to access this property in > >>> Chrome? > > >>> If not, what is the recommended way to do so to ensure that the > >>> extension will have access to such values? > > >>> -- > > >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > >>> "Chromium-extensions" group. > >>> To post to this group, send email to > >>> chromium-extensi...@googlegroups.com. > >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >>> chromium-extensions+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<chromium-extensions%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > >>> . > >>> For more options, visit this group at > >>>http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en. > > >> -- > >> - Mohamed Mansour > > -- > - Mohamed Mansour
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