I want to run a content script on an iframe with a chrome-extension:// URL. I added a line to my manifest.json that I copied out of the documentation http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/match_patterns.html
chrome-extension://*/* But when I reload my extension I get an alert:
Could not load extension from '/work/sirius/extension'. Invalid value for 'content_scripts[2].matches[0]': Invalid scheme. Any idea how to get this to worK?
I'm having the exact same problem, look at the API http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/match_patterns.html it says clearly that they accept chrome-extension://*/* yet they don't.
They need to update the API so as not to confuse people.
No. Only ftp:, file:, http: and https: can be matched by a content script declaration.
Invalid URL patterns at any of the matches and exclude_matches fields are rejected (generating an error when trying to load the extension).
Invalid patterns at the permissions option in the manifest file are ignored.
If you want to run a script on a tab from your extension, use chrome.extension.getViews in your background script. Even better, design your extension's pages such that they effectively communicate with each other (example).
It seems that Chrome authors have silently removed the ability for content scripts to be injected into chrome-extension: pages. Documentation still says that it works and even contains examples with chrome-extension: scheme but actually it doesn't work. So now only http:, https: and ftp: work "from the box" and file: can work if user of your extension has enabled this on Extensions (chrome://extensions/) page.
Update: now documentation referred above is updated and says nothing about ability to inject content scripts to chrome-extension: pages.