Description
The chrome.extension API has utilities that can be used by any extension page. It includes support for exchanging messages between an extension and its content scripts or between extensions, as described in detail in Message Passing.
Types
ViewType
Chrome 44+
The type of extension view.
Enum
"tab" "popup"
Properties
inIncognitoContext
True for content scripts running inside incognito tabs, and for extension pages running inside an incognito process. The latter only applies to extensions with 'split' incognito_behavior.
Type
boolean
lastError
≤ MV2
Deprecated since Chrome 58
Please use runtime.lastError.
Set for the lifetime of a callback if an ansychronous extension api has resulted in an error. If no error has occured lastError will be undefined.
Type
object