Question

I’m developing a chrome extension and I want to open a new tab, but after the current tab that user is on. This is what I’ve tried to do:

function clickEvent(info, tab) {
    update();
    var url= "http://google.com";
    var id = tab.id+1;
    chrome.tabs.create({'url': url, 'index': id});
}

but the created tab opens at the end of tabs queue in chrome tab bar. After removing 'index': id from chrome.tabs.create, the result is same. I don’t know how can I resolve the problem. Can anybody help me?

Answer 1

The tab is appended at the end because you’re using the wrong argument (id should be index). The tab id is a positive integer which uniquely identifies tabs within a session. Consequently, the value of id is always higher than the number of tabs.

The position of the tab can be read from the index property. So, replace id with index:

function clickEvent(info, tab) {
    update();
    var url = "http://google.com/";
    var index = tab.index + 1;
    chrome.tabs.create({'url': url, 'index': index});
}