Articles tagged "activetab"

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A thin line-drawn address bar with a small orange chip, an ink arrow curving down to a page outline where three words are painted over in orange watercolour

Act on the current page from Chrome's address bar: omnibox + activeTab

Use Chrome omnibox and activeTab to highlight or count text on the current page. Follow runnable MV3 code and troubleshoot script injection without host access.

Maxim Kosterin

September 12, 2026

17 min read

A single point of contact on an empty page, small orange watercolor ripples spreading only from where the click landed.

privacy browser-extensions permissions

activeTab permission explained: the host access that skips Chrome's warning

The activeTab permission lets browser extensions touch the page you're on — only when you click, with no scary install warning. Here's what it grants.

Maxim Kosterin

June 26, 2026

8 min read