I've searched and searched and searched for a solution to this but every source I come across seems to assume I already have profound knowledge of Chrome extensions, even Google's help pages
I know the very basics of Chrome extensions and I made one with some basic content scripts. However, now I'm looking to make one that involves context menus.
Let's say when you highlight words and right-click them, you see the option Search '<highlighted words>' on Google
and when clicked, it opens http://www.google.com/search?q=<highlighted words>
in a new tab. I know this exists in Chrome and I'm sure there have been a billion extensions replicating it, but this is only an example for me to build off of.
How can I do this?
Script should look like this:
function getword(info,tab) {
console.log("Word " + info.selectionText + " was clicked.");
chrome.tabs.create({
url: "http://www.google.com/search?q=" + info.selectionText
});
}
chrome.contextMenus.create({
title: "Search: %s",
contexts:["selection"],
onclick: getword
});
And manifest.json:
{
"name": "App name",
"version": "1.0",
"manifest_version": 2,
"description": "Your description",
"permissions": [
"contextMenus"
],
"background": {
"scripts": ["script.js"]
}
}
Here you have how to load extension: http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/getstarted.html