browserAction.onClicked

Fired when a browser action icon is clicked. This event will not fire if the browser action has a popup.

Syntax

browser.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(function(
  tab // tabs.Tab
) {...})
browser.browserAction.onClicked.removeListener(listener)
browser.browserAction.onClicked.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:

tab
tabs.Tab.

Browser compatibility

EdgeFirefoxChromeOpera
Basic support?45.0Yes33
Firefox
Basic supportNo

Examples

Example add-ons

Acknowledgements

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

Document Tags and Contributors

 Contributors to this page: wbamberg, kaze
 Last updated by: wbamberg,