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

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.

By: Kiko Ruiz Benito

Kiko Ruiz Benito — Wed, 05 May 2010 14:10:50 +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 200x300 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: Neetesh

Neetesh — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:16:42 +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: Juliana Peña

Juliana Peña — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:14:17 +0000

I'm not sure. Google seems to be doing something server-side to prevent loading in iframes. I actually think this is a bug in Firefox that is not respecthing this server-side configuration. The iframe does not work in Chrome or Internet Explorer.

By: kamikaze

kamikaze — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:06:24 +0000

Why doesn't the mobile version of google search load up in an iframe in Chrome? It works in FireFox.

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