How can I open my extension’s pop-up with JavaScript?

The Chromium dev team has explicitly said they will not enable this functionality. See Feature request: open extension popup bubble programmatically : The philosophy for browser and page action popups is that they must be triggered by user action. Our suggestion is to use the new html notifications feature… Desktop notifications can be used progammatically … Read more

How to change chrome packaged app id Or Why do we need key field in the manifest.json?

Once uploaded to the Chrome Web Store, your extension ID is fixed and cannot be changed any more. The ID is derived from the .pem file that was created the first time you (or the Chrome Web Store) packed the extension in a .crx file. When you load an extension in “unpacked mode”, an ID … Read more

What’s the difference between “Normal Reload”, “Hard Reload”, and “Empty Cache and Hard Reload” in Chrome?

Normal reload The same thing as pressing F5. This will use the cache but revalidate everything during page load, looking for “304 Not Modified” responses. If the browser can avoid re-downloading cached JavaScript files, images, text files, etc. then it will. Hard reload Don’t use anything in the cache when making the request. (which is … Read more

When running WebDriver with Chrome browser, getting message, “Only local connections are allowed” even though browser launches properly

This is an informational message only. What the message is telling you is that the chromedriver executable will only accept connections from the local machine. Most driver implementations (the Chrome driver and the IE driver for sure) create a HTTP server. The language bindings (Java, Python, Ruby, .NET, etc.) all use a JSON-over-HTTP protocol to … Read more