Question

I have to update a url using chrome extension.
Here is my manifest file

{
    "name": "My First Extension",
    "version": "1.0",
    "description": "The first extension that I made.",
    "browser_action": {
        "default_icon": "cwins.png"
    },
    "permissions": [
    "http://www.google.co.in/",
    "http://www.google.co.in/#hl=en&biw=1920&bih=955&q=anushka&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=&fp=5f42a1c1d2fc35ec"   
    ],
    "content_scripts": [
        {
            "matches": ["http://www.google.co.in/"],      
            "js": ["jquery.js", "myscript.js"]
        }
    ]
}

here is my content_scripts (myscripts.js)

alert('hi');

chrome.tabs.getSelected({}, function(tab) {
    chrome.tabs.update(tab.id, {
        url: 'http://www.google.co.in/#hl=en&biw=1920&bih=955&q=anushka&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=&fp=5f42a1c1d2fc35ec'
    });
});

alert('bye');

ITS NOT UPDATING THE URL

Answer 1

I can see a couple issues: you can’t access chrome.tabs in a content script, and chrome.tabs.getSelected requires the “tabs” permission.

Setting window.location should work in the content script though, so if that’s all you need to do, myscripts.js could be as simple as:

window.location = 'http://www.google.co.in/#hl=en&biw=1920...';

If you do need to use chrome.tabs.update, you can access it from a background page. Basically, you would need to set up an onRequest event handler in the background page, and send a request using chrome.extension.sendRequest from the content script.

So basically you’d have this for your content script (myscript.js):

chrome.extension.sendRequest({ url: 'http://www.google.co.in/#hl=en...' });

and your background page would have a script element with something like this:

chrome.extension.onRequest.addListener(function(request, sender, sendResponse) {
    chrome.tabs.update(sender.tab.id, { url: request.url });
});