Google has put a lot of thought into security and has developed a new concept of preventing browser crashes.

Chrome can automatically detect if the entered string is a search query or an address. A separate search field is also missing from Chrome, because you can enter queries into the address bar as well. A separate menu bar does not exist, maximizing the space available for the display of the web page itself. Chrome itself is also an open source project.Ĭhrome has also introduced new paradigms in user interface design that have since been copied by the other players in the browser space.Īmong them is the space-saving layout of the tabs at the top, above the address bar. This is not surprising since JavaScript performance is crucial to complex web applications such as Google's The V8 JavaScript engine which was developed at Google and has set a new standard in In contrast to Safari, though, Chrome uses Starting with version 28, Google has used its own fork of Webkit called Blink in Chrome. High performance and standards compatibility and also powers most mobile browsers. The open source project Webkit to perform the HTML rendering. If you omit the leading '/', the URL is treated as a relative URL, and different browsers may construct different absolute URLs.Just like Apple does with their Safari browser, Chrome builds upon To load a page that's packaged with your extension, specify an absolute URL starting at the extension's manifest.json file. Non-privileged URLs (e.g., about:blank) are allowed.

privileged about: URLs (for example, about:config, about:addons, about:debugging, about:newtab).

However, to use a file packaged inside the extension, see below)

file: URLs (i.e., files on the filesystem.

So passing any of the following URLs will fail, with runtime.lastError being set to an error message: url Optionalįor security reasons, in Firefox, this may not be a privileged URL. This property has been replaced by active and highlighted. If specified, the opener tab must be in the same window as this tab. Note though that the original URL will still appear in the browser's global history. If the extension sets loadReplace, then the 'Back' button will be disabled and it will be just as if the URL supplied by the extension was the first page visited in that tab. If your extension then updates this page using tabs.update, without loadReplace, the 'Back' button will be enabled and will take the user back to 'about:newtab'. By default, in Firefox, this would load 'about:newtab'. Whether the new URL should replace the old URL in the tab's navigation history, as accessed via the 'Back' button.įor example, suppose the user creates a new tab using Ctrl+T.

Other browsers may activate the tab even in this case. If you only want to highlight the tab without activating it, Firefox accepts setting highlighted to true and active to false. If true and the tab is not highlighted, it will become active by default. Adds or removes the tab from the current selection. Whether the tab should be discarded automatically by the browser when resources are low.

If true, non-active highlighted tabs will stop being highlighted. Does not affect whether the window is focused (see windows.update). To learn more about these properties, see the tabs.Tab documentation. The set of properties to update for this tab. Defaults to the selected tab of the current window. Differences between API implementations.

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