Articles tagged "omnibox"

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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

An MV3 tutorial: accept an omnibox suggestion, spend the activeTab grant, and highlight or count words on the current page. Runnable code, no install warnings.

Maxim Kosterin

September 12, 2026

16 min read

A thin line-drawn address bar capsule with a small orange chip at its left end, and beneath it a watercolour orange band as the highlighted suggestion above two plain hairline rows

chrome-extensions omnibox manifest-v3

Omnibox keywords in Chrome extensions: a command palette for zero permissions

Build a Chrome extension command palette on the omnibox API — a keyword in the address bar, live suggestions, no permission warning. Full MV3 code, ~25 min.

Maxim Kosterin

September 8, 2026

17 min read