Closing popup window created by Google Chrome extension

Question

I\'m trying to create a Chrome extension that is a replacement for the Delicious bookmarklet. I know there\'s already an extension that does it, but the problem with that ex

Answer 1

Try window.close(), but that probably wouldn't work either.

As you are creating regular window (rather than browser action popup), then you can close it using chrome.tabs.remove() from a background page. You can also detect this window from a background page. Something like:

chrome.tabs.onUpdated.addListener(function(tabId, changeInfo, tab) {
    if(changeInfo.status == "loading") {
        if(tab.url == "http://www.delicious.com/save") {
            chrome.tabs.remove(tabId);
        }
    }
});

I am not sure how Chrome treats created windows though - as tabs or windows. If as windows then above code will be a little different.