How to close the current extension tab?

Question

I\'m trying to close the Options page of the extension. I have a Cancel button and I\'m using this code:

chrome.tabs.getCurrent(null, function(tab) {
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Answer 1

Most likely you're running your code from a content script, where chrome.tabs is undefined. If this is the case, you can instead send a message to the background page and have the background page (which has access to chrome.tabs) make the call.

Note that from a background page, you would use chrome.tabs.getSelected since getCurrent will return undefined.

Answer 2

In the options page, you can just do:

window.close()

If you wanted to use chrome.tabs.getCurrent, do you have tabs defined in the permissions section within the manifest?

Answer 3

Only this worked for me:

chrome.tabs.query({ active: true }, function(tabs) {  
    chrome.tabs.remove(tabs[0].id);   
}); 

Answer 4

It works for me with one little fix:

chrome.tabs.getCurrent(function(tab) {
    chrome.tabs.remove(tab.id, function() { });
});

Just make sure you're really running this code in options page of your extension and not just some HTML page, because chrome.tabs API is available only for extensions.

Answer 5

I have time to continue my extension after a very long time. I checked the documentation again. So it was a inline script, that I had probably blocked with Content Security Policy in the manifest, because I hadn't read the documentation precisely.
Now Chrome blocks inline scripts by default, so I'll have to fix it anyway.