tabs.onSelectionChanged

This event is deprecated. Use tabs.onActivated instead.

Fires when the selected tab in a window changes.

Syntax

browser.tabs.onSelectionChanged.addListener(function(
  tabId,     // integer
  selectInfo // object
) {...})
browser.tabs.onSelectionChanged.removeListener(listener)
browser.tabs.onSelectionChanged.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:

tabId
integer. The ID of the tab that has become active.
selectInfo
object.

Additional objects

selectInfo

windowId
integer. The ID of the window the selected tab changed inside of.

Browser compatibility

EdgeFirefoxChromeOpera
Basic support?NoYesNo
Firefox
Basic supportNo

Acknowledgements

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

Document Tags and Contributors

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