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Creating a simple Chrome extension

Paula Santamaría on January 12, 2021

Recently I decided to learn about chrome extensions and after reading the docs and building a few sample extensions I was surprised to see how fast...
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Moulun Kevin

Really helpful article, with that I had the possibility to open a note taking web page anytime I open a new tab, thank you! 🙏

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Paula Santamaría

Glad I could help! I'm working on a new post, that I will be publishing on friday, about adding keyboard shortcuts to a chrome extension :)

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Moulun Kevin

Oh I'll make sure to follow you then!

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Paula Santamaría

Thank you! 🙏

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Vaneeswaran

Honestly , I tried to start my hello-world of chrome extension couple of times back but didn't finish it bcoz none of the articles worked, and I found this post have to say this one is really helpful article :) Its soo exciting to see when the code worked :) Acho looks cute in the popup too :)

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Paula Santamaría

Thank you! I'm so glad my article was helpful :)

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Tomas Sirio

Loved the post. I adapted it to show my cat Benito :D Hope you don't mind

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Paula Santamaría

That's awesome and Benito is so cute! Give him a hug for me ♥️

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mihir patel

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raag pc

Great post, thank you

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Paula Santamaría

Thanks for reading!

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Nick

Awesome post! Thank you for sharing

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Paula Santamaría

Thanks! Glad you like it :)

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Jatniel Guzmán Gámez

Thanks !

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Paula Santamaría

Happy to help :)

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Richard Rhein

Hello, it is an interesting post. I´ve tested it and I´ve got an 'undefined' in the section of, where the name of the website should be there and idk why.

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Paula Santamaría

Thanks! Could you show me the contents of your "manifest.json" file? I believe you may be missing the permissions for "tabs".

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Mr J • Edited

You are fantastic