Comments on: How to build a Chrome extension, Part 2: Options and localStorage

By: Robert Dyson

Robert Dyson — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:28:00 +0000

Thanks for this! Very useful.

By: suan

suan — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 03:35:00 +0000

Thanks so much for posting this. Information about chrome options pages is surprisingly hard to find!

By: Jayapal Chandran

Jayapal Chandran — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 07:24:00 +0000

I was trying to store boolean and integers but it always showed as string when in used typeof…
for example window.localStorage.theflag = true or window.localStorage = false and i use a condition like the following if(window.localStorage.theflag) always gives true because when i alerted with type of it showed that as string and not as integer or boolean … how do we use integer data in localstorage … ? do we have to typecase or need to multiply with *1 to make the result an integer data type ???

By: Ivan Castellanos

Ivan Castellanos — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 23:15:00 +0000

Gracias por la info! por aqui otro colombiano… but you probably already forgot how to speak spanish xD

By: Juliana Peña

Juliana Peña — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:13:00 +0000

You could convert the images into base64 and save that as text.

By: Rcha

Rcha — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:09:00 +0000

Would you know how to save image files into local storage?
I want to add a feature where users can save a couple of image files into the options panel, and I would use those image files as arguments to a POST request I will be doing.
I haven’t found any documentation on file storage. Only on text storage. Could you please guide me.
Thank You.

By: iampriteshdesai

iampriteshdesai — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:16:00 +0000

I want to store the url of the current tab into a variable in the popup.html page…
how can i do it?

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:55:00 +0000

This issue is covered in http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=42811 — I am annoyed myself. I will have to try some of their workarounds.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:55:41 +0000

This issue is covered in http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail... -- I am annoyed myself. I will have to try some of their workarounds.

By: bryanlynn

bryanlynn — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:35:22 +0000

This is pretty powerful. I tried to use pieces of this, but I think if I had a zipped version that worked it might be easier.