browserAction.onClicked
Fired when a browser action icon is clicked. This event will not fire if the browser action has a popup.
To define a right-click action, use the contextMenus API with the "browser_action" context type.
Syntax
browser.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(listener)
browser.browserAction.onClicked.removeListener(listener)
browser.browserAction.onClicked.hasListener(listener)
Events have three functions:
addListener(listener)-
Adds a listener to this event.
removeListener(listener)-
Stop listening to this event. The
listenerargument is the listener to remove. hasListener(listener)-
Check whether
listeneris registered for this event. Returnstrueif it is listening,falseotherwise.
addListener syntax
Parameters
listener-
The function called when this event occurs. The function is passed these arguments:
tab-
tabs.Tab. The tab that was active when the icon was clicked. OnClickData-
An object containing information about the click.
modifiers-
An
array. The keyboard modifiers active at the time of the click, being one or more ofShift,Alt,Command,Ctrl, orMacCtrl. -
An
integer. Indicates the button used to click the page action icon:0for a left-click or a click not associated with a mouse, such as one from the keyboard and1for a middle button or wheel click. Note that the right-click is not supported because Firefox consumes that click to display the context menu before this event is triggered.
Examples
When the user clicks the browser action icon this code turns it off for the active tab and logs the tab's URL:
browser.browserAction.onClicked.addListener((tab) => {
// disable the browser action for the tab
browser.browserAction.disable(tab.id);
// requires the "tabs" or "activeTab" permission, or host permissions for the URL
console.log(tab.url);
});
Example extensions
Browser compatibility
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Note:
This API is based on Chromium's chrome.browserAction API. This documentation is derived from browser_action.json in the Chromium code.