Gets the window that was most recently focused — typically the window 'on top'.
Syntax
browser.windows.getLastFocused(
getInfo, // optional object
function(window) {...} // function
)
Parameters
getInfoOptionalobject.populateOptionalboolean. If true, thewindows.Windowobject will have a tabs property that contains a list of thetabs.Tabobjects. TheTabobjects only contain theurl,titleandfavIconUrlproperties if the extension's manifest file includes the"tabs"permission.windowTypesOptionalarrayofwindows.WindowTypewindows.Windowreturned will be filtered based on its type. If unset the default filter is set to['app', 'normal', 'panel', 'popup'], with'app'and'panel'window types limited to the extension's own windows.
callbackfunction. The function is passed the following arguments:windowwindows.Window.
Browser compatibility
Examples
Acknowledgements
This API is based on Chromium's chrome.windows API. This documentation is derived from windows.json in the Chromium code.
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