Hi all
Sorry if this is the wrong forum, I couldn't see an Edge development forum in the list.
I want to learn some more about edge extensions so I'm trying to write a basic Hello World extension. I though I would convert some handy javascripts that I have in to extensions so that I can see how they differ and do a bit of learning.
However I'm stumped. My very first "how does this work then" extension was just a basic few lines to reload the current page really to test the loading of an Extension and creating the menu. I never thought the javascript would be the issue. It
works in javascript in my PHP, but in Edge it doesn't seem to work, no matter what I do. The extension loads, all that was fine. The context menu appears but when I click the entry nothing happens.
Here's my script.js file from my extension.
browser.contextMenus.create({
id: "HelloWorld",
title: "HelloWorld",
contexts: ['page']
});
browser.contextMenus.onClicked.addListener(function(info, tab) {
if (info.menuItemId == "HelloWorld") {
location.reload(true);
}
});
When I click on the context menu the debug console says this;
HTML1300: Navigation occurred.
_generated_background_page.html
Current window: HelloWorld_427AE4A3953D462E89096B1EE55ED104/_generated_background_page.html
My guess is that my extension is handily refreshing the background page that the extension runs in rather than the current tab and that I have to get the object reference of the current and reload that. Perhaps an Edge quirk?
Does anyone know why something as simple as a page reload wouldn't work in Edge?
Olly
