sessions.onChanged
Fired whenever the list of closed tabs or windows changes.
Syntax
browser.sessions.onChanged.addListener(listener)
browser.sessions.onChanged.removeListener(listener)
browser.sessions.onChanged.hasListener(listener)
Events have three functions:
addListener(callback)
- Adds a listener to this event.
removeListener(listener)
- Stop listening to this event. The
listener
argument is the listener to remove. hasListener(listener)
- Check whether
listener
is registered for this event. Returnstrue
if it is listening,false
otherwise.
addListener syntax
Parameters
Browser compatibility
Report problems with this compatibility data on GitHubwebextensions-desktop | webextensions-mobile | |||||
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onChanged | ChromeFull supportYes | EdgeFull support79 | FirefoxFull support53 | OperaFull supportYes | SafariNo supportNo | Firefox for AndroidNo supportNo |
Legend
- Full support
- Full support
- No support
- No support
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Examples
This very annoying extension listens for onChanged
, then immediately restores the most recently closed session, thus making it impossible to close windows or tabs:
function restoreSession(sessionInfos) {
if (!sessionInfos.length) {
console.log("No sessions found")
return;
}
let sessionInfo = sessionInfos[0];
if (sessionInfo.tab) {
browser.sessions.restore(sessionInfo.tab.sessionId);
} else {
browser.sessions.restore(sessionInfo.window.sessionId);
}
}
function onError(error) {
console.log(error);
}
function restoreMostRecent() {
var gettingSessions = browser.sessions.getRecentlyClosed({
maxResults: 1
});
gettingSessions.then(restoreSession, onError);
}
browser.sessions.onChanged.addListener(restoreMostRecent);
Acknowledgements
This API is based on Chromium's chrome.sessions
API.
Microsoft Edge compatibility data is supplied by Microsoft Corporation and is included here under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.