There is no way to do this on purpose. Web pages should not be able to
control whether windows or tabs are opened with that much detail. That
is a user preference.

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On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:33 PM, reikred <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Any other ideas on how to get around the problem of opening tabs
> versus opening windows? For example, if there was a way to get
> to the variable that controls this behavior, that would work for me.
>
>
> On Oct 28, 11:37 am, Aaron Boodman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> No, the chrome.tabs API is only for use by extensions.
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 9:59 AM, reikred <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > I'm trying to make a javascript that will open a bunch of windows,
>> > each with a bunch of specific tabs.
>>
>> > <html>
>> > <body>
>> > <script type="text/javascript">
>> > //The reason I cannot use windows.open() is that I do not know how to
>> > //turn on/off whether windows.open will make a tab or a window.
>> > chrome.windows.create({url:"http://www.google.com/"});
>> > chrome.tabs.create({url:"http://www.gmail.com/"});
>> > chrome.tabs.create({url:"http://www.google.com/finance/"});
>> > //
>> > chrome.windows.create({url:"http://www.yahoo.com/"});
>> > chrome.tabs.create({url:"http://mail.yahoo.com/"});
>> > chrome.tabs.create({url:"http://finance.yahoo.com/"});
>> > </script>
>> > </body>
>> > </html>
>>
>> > As you see in the comment , I do not know how to get windows.open to
>> > switch between opening windows and opening tabs, so I thought I'd try
>> > something like chrome.tabs.create. But that does not work, and
>> > apparently the reason is that a plain javascript does not have direct
>> > access to this API.
>>
>> > chrome.windows.create({url:"http://www.google.com/"});
>> > [Exception] TypeError: Cannot call method 'create' of undefined
>>
>> > How do I get access to the API? I *think* one way might be to create
>> > an extension, but I would *really* like to avoid having to do that.
> >
>

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