Yes, I was afraid of that; I had been investigating things to do after
handling an onUpdated event and didn't come up with anything
fruitful. Thanks for the help though.
On Jan 21, 5:01 pm, Mohamed Mansour <m...@chromium.org> wrote:
> You have access to the window object, from the background page, you can
> execute a script on the selected tab like this:
>
> chrome.tabs.getSelected(null, function(tab) {
>
> var jsRunner = {'code': 'window.stop()'};
>
> chrome.tabs.executeScript(tab.id, jsRunner);
>
> });
>
> Concerning your other question, I don't believe there is a way to intercept
> requests, maybe you can listen on every chrome.tabs.onUpdated.addListener
> event
> and do whatever you think is malicious and draw something over it using
> JavaScript to inform the user that its not good. Or you can close the window
> using chrome.tabs.remove and open a new window with a custom extension page
> stating that page has malicious content using chrome.tabs.create.
>
> But I don't think it will do any good, but it will just stop the user from
> browsing that page after he/she/it first enters it.
>
> -Mohamed Mansour
>
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Min Huang <reti...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hmm, but then I would need to have a window object to begin with. I
> > think I need to back up. Suppose I want to create an extension that
> > stops users from visiting a malicious website; I add an event listener
> > to the chrome.tabs.onUpdated event. When I see a URL that is
> > suspicious, I stop the page from loading and ask the user if he really
> > wants to visit the site. How could I implement that?
>
> > On Jan 21, 4:29 pm, Mohamed Mansour <m...@chromium.org> wrote:
> > > You can use JavaScript's window.stop to stop loading the page
> > > programmatically.
>
> > >https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.stop
>
> > > -Mohamed Mansour
>
> > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Min Huang <reti...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > I know can I press ESC to stop a page from loading manually, but is
> > > > there no way to do it otherwise? I feel like an idiot for asking but
> > > > I don't see anything in the chrome.* APIs.
>
> > > > -Min
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