runtime.onRestartRequired

Fired when an app or the device that it runs on needs to be restarted. The app should close all its windows at its earliest convenient time to let the restart to happen. If the app does nothing, a restart will be enforced after a 24-hour grace period has passed. Currently, this event is only fired for Chrome OS kiosk apps.

Syntax

browser.runtime.onRestartRequired.addListener(function(
  reason // OnRestartRequiredReason
) {...})
browser.runtime.onRestartRequired.removeListener(listener)
browser.runtime.onRestartRequired.hasListener(listener)

Events have three functions:

addListener(callback)
Adds a listener to this event.
removeListener(listener)
Stop listening to this event. The listener argument is the listener to remove.
hasListener(listener)
Check whether listener is registered for this event. Returns true if it is listening, false otherwise.

addListener syntax

Parameters

callback

Function that will be called when this event occurs. The function will be passed the following arguments:

reason
runtime.OnRestartRequiredReason. The reason that the event is being dispatched.

Browser compatibility

EdgeFirefoxChromeOpera
Basic support?NoYes33
Firefox
Basic supportNo

Examples

Acknowledgements

This API is based on Chromium's chrome.runtime API. This documentation is derived from runtime.json in the Chromium code.

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