I have a Safari 5 extension that contains a toolbar. Whenever the current tab changes, that toolbar should be updated. I would like to do something like this from my bar’s script:
safari.self.browserWindow.addEventListener("activeTab", tabChanged, false);
However, that doesn’t seem to work. I have tried a number of other event names as well:
- activeTab
- activeTabChanged
- onActiveTab
- onActiveTabChanged
- tab
- tabChanged
- onTab
- onTabChanged
- selectionChanged
- onSelectionChanged
Does anybody know how to detect when the active tab changes?
Not that this is in any way related, but it looks like I would do this in Chrome with:
chrome.tabs.onSelectionChanged.addListener(tabChanged);
Safari 5.1 has several new events for extensions, including an “activate” event that fires when a window or tab is focused.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariextensions/safariactivateevent