Google Chrome Extensions (Labs)

Developer's Guide

These pages assume you've completed the Getting Started tutorial and Overview.

Changing the Google Chrome chrome

Browser Actions	Add icons to the toolbar
Options Pages	Let users customize your extension
Override Pages	Implement your own version of standard browser pages such as the New Tab page
Page Actions	Add temporary icons inside the address bar
Themes	Change the overall appearance of the browser
Interacting with Google Chrome in other ways

Bookmarks	Create, organize, and otherwise manipulate the user's bookmarks
Events	Detect when something interesting happens
I18n	Deal with language and locale
Tabs	Create, modify, and rearrange tabs in the browser
Windows	Create, modify, and rearrange windows in the browser
Implementing the innards of your extension

Background Pages	Put all the common code for your extension in a single place
Content Scripts	Run JavaScript code in the context of web pages
Cross-Origin XHR	Use XMLHttpRequest to send and receive data from remote servers
Message Passing	Communicate from a content script to its parent extension, or vice versa
NPAPI Plugins	Load native binary code
Finishing and distributing your extension

Autoupdating	Update extensions automatically
Hosting	Host extensions on your own servers
Packaging	Create a .crx file so you can distribute your extension

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void chrome.module.methodName(, )

Undocumented.

A description from the json schema def of the function goes here.

The callback parameter should specify a function that looks like this:

If you specify the callback parameter, it should specify a function that looks like this:

function(Type param1, Type param2) {...});