Question

I am trying to utilize the Google Bookmarks API for Chrome Extensions (this is not the Google Bookmarks API as in http://www.google.com/bookmarks/, but rather Chrome Bookmarks API).

Anyway, I just tried a simple example which I have the background.html and the manifest.json listed below. However, I am not getting the alert dialog box. I am not getting this problem if I switch to using tab events. What am I doing wrong?

manifest.json

{
    "name": "Google Bookmark Integration",
    "version": "1.0",
    "description": "Integrates Chrome bookmarks with Google Bookmarks.",
    "icons": { "128": "images/bookmark.ico" },
    "background_page": "background.html",
    "permissions": [
        "bookmarks",
        "http://*.google.com/bookmarks/*"
    ]
}

background.html

<script>
    chrome.bookmarks.onCreated.addListener(function(id, bookmark) {
       console.log("Bookmark Created"); 
    });
</script>

Answer 1

To answer my own question, the problem here was that, not only do the permissions need to be set to “bookmarks” but they also need to be set to “tabs”. Once I did this, the plug-in then recognized adding and removing bookmarks.

Very counterintuitive, but this is the solution.