windows.onCreated

Fired when a window is created.

Syntax

browser.windows.onCreated.addListener(function(
  window // Window
) {...})
browser.windows.onCreated.removeListener(listener)
browser.windows.onCreated.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:

window
windows.Window. Details of the window that was created.

Browser compatibility

EdgeFirefoxChromeOpera
Basic support?45.0Yes33
Firefox
Basic supportNo

Examples

Acknowledgements

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

Document Tags and Contributors

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