You can't in the background page because it exists once in the background per extension per browser. And you can have at most one browser open at any time. While a browser can open many windows which consists of many tabs.
If you really want to open a new tab, you need permission from the tabs api http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/tabs.html#method-create <http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/tabs.html#method-create>As far as I know, thats the only way, anyone else can correct me if I am mistaken :x -Mohamed Mansour On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Jon Stritar <jstri...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, works well for the links in my popup. When I try to use the > same technique from my background page it opens the link in a new > window with no tabs or toolbars. Any ideas on how to get that to be a > new tab on an existing window? > > --Jon > > On Dec 11, 11:41 am, Mohamed Mansour <m...@chromium.org> wrote: > > Hi Jon, > > > > You can use the target = blank if you want that approach. > > > > <a href="http://chromium.org"; target="_blank"> open new tab </a> > > > > -Mohamed Mansour > > > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Jon Stritar <jstri...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Is there a way to open a link in a new tab without going through the > > > tabs API (chrome.tabs.create)? We really don't need access to the tabs > > > and browser history for this, but I think window.open only creates new > > > windows. Any ideas? > > > > > --Jon > > > > > -- > > > > > 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> > <chromium-extensions%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com<chromium-extensions%252bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > > > > . > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en. > > > > > > -- > > 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. > > > -- 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. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en.
