Use the chrome.tabs module to interact with the browser's tab system. You can use this module to create, modify, and rearrange tabs in the browser.

Manifest

Almost all chrome.tabs methods require you to declare the "tabs" permission in the extension manifest. For example:

{
  "name": "My extension",
  ...
  "permissions": [
    "tabs"
  ],
  ...
}

The two methods that don't require the "tabs" permission are create and update.

Examples

You can find simple examples of using the tabs module in the examples/api/tabs directory. For other examples and for help in viewing the source code, see Samples.