tabs.create()
Creates a new tab.
This is an asynchronous function that returns a Promise
.
Syntax
var creating = browser.tabs.create(
createProperties // object
)
Parameters
createProperties
object
. Properties to give the new tab. To learn more about these properties, see thetabs.Tab
documentation.-
active
Optionalboolean
. Whether the tab should become the active tab in the window. Iffalse
, it has no effect. Does not affect whether the window is focused (seewindows.update
). Defaults totrue
.cookieStoreId
Optionalstring
. Use this to create a tab whose cookie store ID iscookieStoreId
. This option is only available if the extension has the"cookies"
permission.discarded
Optionalboolean
. Whether the tab is created and made visible in the tab bar without any content loaded into memory, a state known as discarded. The tab’s content is loaded when the tab is activated.index
Optionalinteger
. The position the tab should take in the window. The provided value will be clamped to between zero and the number of tabs in the window.openerTabId
Optionalinteger
. The ID of the tab that opened this tab. If specified, the opener tab must be in the same window as the newly created tab.openInReaderMode
Optionalboolean
. Iftrue
, open this tab in Reader Mode. Defaults tofalse
.pinned
Optionalboolean
. Whether the tab should be pinned. Defaults tofalse
.selected
Optionalboolean
. Whether the tab should become the selected tab in the window. Defaults totrue
.This property is deprecated, and is not supported in Firefox. Useactive
instead.title
Optionalstring
. The title of the tab. Allowed only if the tab is created withdiscarded
set totrue
.url
Optionalstring
. The URL to navigate the tab to initially. Defaults to the New Tab Page.- Fully-qualified URLs must include a scheme (for example, 'http://www.google.com' not 'www.google.com').
- For security reasons, in Firefox, this may not be a privileged URL. So passing any of the following URLs will fail:
-
- chrome: URLs
- javascript: URLs
- data: URLs
- file: URLs (i.e., files on the filesystem. However, to use a file packaged inside the extension, see below)
- privileged about: URLs (for example,
about:config
,about:addons
,about:debugging
). Non-privileged URLs (e.g.,about:blank
) are allowed. - The New Tab page (
about:newtab
) can be opened if no value for URL is provided.
To load a page that's packaged with your extension, specify an absolute URL starting at the extension's manifest.json file. For example: '/path/to/my-page.html'. If you omit the leading '/', the URL is treated as a relative URL, and different browsers may construct different absolute URLs.
windowId
Optionalinteger
. The window to create the new tab in. Defaults to the current window.
Return value
A Promise
that will be fulfilled with a tabs.Tab
object containing details about the created tab. If the tab could not be created (for example, because url
used a privileged scheme) the promise will be rejected with an error message.
The promise returned by browser.tabs.create()
resolves as soon as the tab has been created. The tab may still be loading. To detect when the tab has finished loading, listen to the tabs.onUpdated
or the webNavigation.onCompleted
event before calling tabs.create
.
Examples
Open "https://example.org" in a new tab:
function onCreated(tab) {
console.log(`Created new tab: ${tab.id}`)
}
function onError(error) {
console.log(`Error: ${error}`);
}
browser.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(function() {
var creating = browser.tabs.create({
url:"https://example.org"
});
creating.then(onCreated, onError);
});
Example extensions
Browser compatibility
Report problems with this compatibility data on GitHubwebextensions-desktop | webextensions-mobile | |||||
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create | ChromeFull supportYes | EdgeFull support14 | FirefoxFull support45 | OperaFull supportYes | SafariFull support14 | Firefox for AndroidFull support54 |
Legend
- Full support
- Full support
This API is based on Chromium's chrome.tabs
API. This documentation is derived from tabs.json
in the Chromium code.
Microsoft Edge compatibility data is supplied by Microsoft Corporation and is included here under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.