Manifest

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

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

Three methods ($ref:tabs.create, $ref:tabs.update and $ref:tabs.remove) and one event ($ref:tabs.onRemoved) don't require the "tabs" permission.

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.