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- Getting Started
- Overview
- What's New?
Developer's Guide
- Browser UI
- Browser Interaction
- Implementation
- Finishing
Packaged Apps
Tutorials
Reference
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Developer's Guide
Developer's Guide
These pages assume you've completed the Getting Started tutorial and Overview. Unless otherwise stated, everything in this page applies to packaged apps, as well as extensions.
Changing the Google Chrome chrome |
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| Browser Actions | Add icons to the toolbar (extensions only) |
| Desktop Notifications | Notify users of important events |
| Omnibox | Add a keyword to the address bar |
| Options Pages | Let users customize your extension |
| Override Pages | Implement your own version of standard browser pages such as the New Tab page |
| Page Actions | Add temporary icons inside the address bar (extensions only) |
| Themes | Change the overall appearance of the browser |
Interacting with Google Chrome in other ways |
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| Bookmarks | Create, organize, and otherwise manipulate the user's bookmarks |
| Cookies | Explore and modify the browser's cookie system |
| Events | Detect when something interesting happens |
| History | Interact with the browser's record of visited pages |
| Tabs | Create, modify, and rearrange tabs in the browser |
| Windows | Create, modify, and rearrange windows in the browser |
Implementing the innards of your extension |
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| Accessibility (a11y) | Make your extension accessible to people with disabilities |
| Background Pages | Put all the common code for your extension in a single place |
| Content Scripts | Run JavaScript code in the context of web pages |
| Cross-Origin XHR | Use XMLHttpRequest to send and receive data from remote servers |
| Internationalization | Deal with language and locale |
| Message Passing | Communicate from a content script to its parent extension, or vice versa |
| NPAPI Plugins | Load native binary code |
Finishing and distributing your extension |
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| Autoupdating | Update extensions automatically |
| Hosting | Host extensions on Google servers or your own |
| Other Deployment Options | Distribute extensions on your network or with other software |
| Packaging | Create a .crx file so you can distribute your extension |