Use the chrome.tabs module to interact with the browser's tab system. You can use this module to create, modify, and rearrange tabs in the browser.

Manifest

You must declare the "tabs" permission in your extension's manifest to use the tabs API. For example:

{
  "name": "My extension",
  ...
  "permissions": [
    "tabs"
  ],
  ...
}

Examples

You can find simple examples of using the tabs module in the examples/api/tabs directory. For other examples and for help in viewing the source code, see Samples.