webNavigation.onTabReplaced

Fired when the contents of the tab is replaced by a different (usually previously pre-rendered) tab.

Syntax

browser.webNavigation.onTabReplaced.addListener(function(
  details // object
) {...})
browser.webNavigation.onTabReplaced.removeListener(listener)
browser.webNavigation.onTabReplaced.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:

details
object.

Additional objects

details

replacedTabId
integer. The ID of the tab that was replaced.
tabId
integer. The ID of the tab that replaced the old tab.
timeStamp
number. The time when the replacement happened, in milliseconds since the epoch.

Browser compatibility

EdgeFirefoxChromeOpera
Basic support?NoYes33
Firefox
Basic supportNo

Examples

Acknowledgements

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

Document Tags and Contributors

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