That may be nice to have on extensions. BTW, Chrome already offers that feature, only not available to extensions: Right click a tab -> close tabs opened by this tab. It also offer some other tab features, and it highlights the affected tabs when hovering an option. Pretty cool.
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Aaron Boodman <[email protected]> wrote: > I see. > > Yeah, a sourceTabId would be nice in the onTabCreated event for this, > but there isn't one. Another approach (one that involves more effort) > is to instrument pages with click event listeners. If a hyperlink is > clicked shortly followed by a tab open event, assume they are related? > Dirty, I know. > > I've created a bug on your feature request, here: > http://crbug.com/29698. We'll keep it in mind and if more people > request it, we'll add it. > > Thanks, > > - a > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:35 AM, C Ridge <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm thinking along the lines of grouping all tabs with a common source > > together. Let's say I do a Google search and I open 5 results. From > > these 5 results I open 3 more pages etc. Finally I find what I'm > > looking for, and I'm stuck with a large number of tabs inbetween other > > tabs - and I'd like to close all the tabs who came from this initial > > search, but none of the others. I know that there are ways to do this > > better, like opening a new window for a new search - but who thinks of > > that before it's too late? ;-) > > > > Chr. > > > > On 5 Des, 03:06, Aaron Boodman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I can't think of any way to do this with the current APIs. Can you > >> step back and describe what you're trying to do? > >> > >> - a > >> > >> > >> > >> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 1:19 AM, Christian <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Hi! > >> > >> > I'm thinking of writing an extension I really think will be useful - > >> > at least I have missed it quite often. However, this requires on thing > >> > I haven't found out how to to: If I'm listening to onCreated for tabs > >> > - is there any way to find out what the origin of the new tab was? > >> > More specifically: If it was opened by clicking a link in another tab, > >> > which tab was this? > >> > >> > Best regards, > >> > >> > Christian Rygg > >> > >> > -- > >> > >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Chromium-extensions" group. > >> > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<chromium-extensions%[email protected]> > . > >> > For more options, visit this group athttp:// > groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en. > > > > -- > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Chromium-extensions" group. > > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<chromium-extensions%[email protected]> > . > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en. > > > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Chromium-extensions" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<chromium-extensions%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en. > > > -- Marcos Aruj Alvarez Ingeniero de Software ------------------------------- [email protected] ----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-extensions" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en.
