Comments on: How to build a Chrome extension, Part 3: Loading any web page in a popup

By: Neetesh

Neetesh — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:39:00 +0000

I am trying to do the same thing in a background page but it doesn’t work. Basically what im trying to do is load a external html page (which plays a song or video) in a background page. So even when the popup is closed the songs keeps playing in the background. Any ideas ?

By: ~Z~

~Z~ — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:17:00 +0000

Hello Juliana,

Thanks a lot for such informative tutorial!
Web is full of help, but this was what I needed.
Also this page is very beautiful too. Nice design!

I followed the instructions here and everything worked well. But now I want that when I click some link in the popup, the page should open in a new tab.
Can you help me with this? : )

By: Eli

Eli — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 08:19:00 +0000

hi, i don’t know if anyone would reply to me because it’s been a long time since someone commented here but i have this question

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7760438/how-to-display-a-section-of-the-page

By: Luisvid

Luisvid — Thu, 05 May 2011 14:06:00 +0000

Hola Juliana, muy bueno tu blog, llegué buscando info de como hacer un una extension para Chrome y es lo que necesitaba.
Te hago una consulta, cómo debería hacer para llamar a un web service desde la extension? necesito pasarle la url y un id de usuario. Te agradezco si me puedes orientar.

Muchas gracias

Luis

By: Juliana Peña

Juliana Peña — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 23:17:00 +0000

As far as I know there is no way to open the popup programmatically. Have you tried using the icon badge to notify the user when the content has changed instead?

By: Dahe_1980

Dahe_1980 — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 21:05:00 +0000

Thanks it is really close to what I am trying to do except I need to open the pop pragmatically instead a user clicks the extension icon. Do you have any suggestion?

By: abc

abc — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:45:00 +0000

use ajax laod content,then render it.

By: Juliana Peña

Juliana Peña — Wed, 05 May 2010 15:24:00 +0000

This is a known bug in Chrome: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=28829
File input forms will not work in browser action popups.

By: Kiko Ruiz Benito

Kiko Ruiz Benito — Wed, 05 May 2010 15:10:00 +0000

Hi!

I have an extension that loads an external web page (mine). It works so well except the input file. If I made the same extension to load in a new tab works well but fails if it´s a popup.

I can´t leave the extension as a new tab because the external page is a mobile version and it´s weird to have a new tab with only 200×300 px

I´ve been reading and google doesn´t say anything about any popup limitation. Do you know anything about that problem?

Thanks a lot and excuse my english.

By: Juliana Peña

Juliana Peña — Wed, 05 May 2010 14:24:07 +0000

This is a known bug in Chrome: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail...
File input forms will not work in browser action popups.