commands

Listen for the user executing commands that you have registered using the commands manifest.json key.

Types

commands.Command
Object representing a command. This contains the information specified for the command in the commands manifest.json key.

Functions

commands.getAll

Gets all registered commands for this extension.

Events

commands.onCommand
Fired when a command is executed using its associated keyboard shortcut.

Browser compatibility

ChromeEdgeFirefoxFirefox for AndroidOpera
CommandYesNo48NoYes
getAllYesNo48NoYes
onCommandYesNo48NoYes

Chrome incompatibilities

commands

Firefox does not support:

  • global
  • any of the media keys: "MediaNextTrack", "MediaPlayPause", "MediaPrevTrack", "MediaStop"

Example extensions

Acknowledgements

This API is based on Chromium's chrome.commands API.

Microsoft Edge compatibility data is supplied by Microsoft Corporation and is included here under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.

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