Question

I’ve searched through stackoverflow and google’s extension FAQ but could not seem to find the answer. Browser actions for my chrome extension refuse to work… Here is my code. Note: i’ve tried using background.html instead of .js – no go. It never calls linker.js.

Manifest.json

{

    "name": "name",
    "version": "1.0",
    "background": "background.js",      
    "description": "test",
    "permissions": ["tabs", "http://*/*", "https://*/*"],
   "browser_action": {
        "default_title": "Test",
        "default_icon": "raindrop.png"
        }
}

background.js

chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(function(tab) {
  chrome.tabs.executeScript(null, {file: "linker.js"});
});

linker.js

alert("linker is running");

plus more code here

Does anyone have any ideas?

Answer 1

Your manifest needs to be "background_page": "background.html". Within background.html you need to include <script src="background.js"></script>. This will add the onClicked listener and it looks like linker.js should trigger an alert.