Use the chrome.contentSettings API to control whether websites can use features such as cookies, JavaScript, and plugins. More generally speaking, content settings allow you to …

Jan 28, 2025 · Installing an extension in a browser creates a standalone web server in the browser. The extension is isolated from all tab pages. The following list outlines helpful …

Unlike a normal web page, your JavaScript can use all the same privileged WebExtension APIs as your background script. You can also include HTML documents in your extension which are …

The architecture of browser extensions is unusual and multifaceted: They lack centralization and instead are formed by a network of distributed elements: background scripts, content scripts, …

Chapter 3: Browser Extension Crash Course walks you through a quick and dirty tutorial of how to build and run a browser extension. Chapter 4: Browser Extension Architecture covers in a …

Using JavaScript, you can create, modify and remove elements in the page dynamically. can read and manipulate content from websites, make unfettered network requests, and access …

Background pages: Implement long-running logic. Icons for the extension and any buttons it might define. Content scripts: JavaScript included with your extension, that you will inject into web …

Jan 25, 2021 · Its goal is to contain the state of your extension, and to implement all external calls or chrome API manipulation. For instance, it’s from a Background Script that you would be …

Mar 11, 2022 · You will find that Chrome Extension consists of UI,background components and network interface to external API. The blue boxes indicate the Chrome Extension API provided …

Feb 15, 2022 · In this post, we are describing the google chrome extension architecture. Within this separated environment, we can organize the extension as having three big parts. They are …