safari-extension

I'm looking to redirect new tabs in Safari to a certain URL, in essence changing the default new tab page. However, I do not want to redirect new tabs that are opened by following links. The Windows and Tabs API describes tab "open" events, but these are fired when any new tab opens (including new tabs opened from links). Is there a way to catch a new tab event for only those tabs that are created by clicking the new tab button? Thanks in advance! In your open event handler, first check if the event target is a tab. If it is, register an event handler for the beforeNavigate event on that tab.

Instead of going to Extension Builder > Build Package… , I'd like to built a .safariextz package from the MyExtension.safariextension folder. I know I can unpack an extension with xar -xf . I suspect the way back involves packing it with xar , but then I'll need to do the code signing thing, which may or may not involve codesign(1) . Here are Omar Ismail's instructions, omitting the need for separate shell scripts. This will all occur in a directory safari/ , where we will be signing the directory safari/appname.safariextension/ to become the extension safari/appname.safariextz . The first

I want to programmatically trigger a 'click' event on my Safari Extension toolbarItem so that my custom popover appears after something happens on the webpage. I'm using the new Xcode extension IDE and have built my popover using interface builder. All of the answers on StackOverflow currently deal with extensions built in the Safari extension builder and not in the Xcode interface. For example, I have tried injected Safari JS solutions like: safari.extension.toolbarItems[0].showPopover(); But nothing happens, and I don't think it's supposed to work when you build extensions in Xcode. I don't

Is it possible to highlight the URL bar (set focus to the location bar) using Google Chrome extensions or Safari extensions? Using Firefox extensions, one can highlight the URL bar like this: var addressBar=document.getElementById('urlbar'); addressBar.focus(); addressBar.select(); I'm not sure if there's similar functionality in Chrome and Safari. Thanks in advance for your help! Juzer Ali Firefox, in its plugins and extensions gives access to browser's "chrome" (the UI stuff around the page) which makes this possible, although I am not sure of the api that you have mentioned. Google Chrome,

I am a newbie to the browser extension development and I understand the concept of browser extensions altering the page and injecting codes into it. Is there a way this direction can be turned around? I write an extension that provides a set of APIs, and web sites that want to use my extension can detect its presence and if it is present, the website can call my API methods like var extension = Extenion(foo, bar) . Is this possible in Chrome, Firefox and Safari? Example: Google created a new extension called BeautifierExtension. It has a set of APIs as JS objects. User goes to reddit.com.