bookmarks.onRemoved

Fired when a bookmark or folder is removed. When a folder is removed recursively, a single notification is fired for the folder, and none for its contents.

Syntax

js
browser.bookmarks.onRemoved.addListener(listener)
browser.bookmarks.onRemoved.removeListener(listener)
browser.bookmarks.onRemoved.hasListener(listener)

Events have three functions:

addListener(listener)

Adds a listener to this event.

removeListener(listener)

Stop listening to this event. The listener argument is the listener to remove.

hasListener(listener)

Check whether listener is registered for this event. Returns true if it is listening, false otherwise.

addListener syntax

Parameters

listener

The function called when this event occurs. The function is passed these arguments:

id

string. ID of the item that was removed.

removeInfo

object. More details about the removed item. See the removeInfo section for more details.

Additional objects

removeInfo

parentId

string. ID of the item's parent in the tree.

index

integer. Zero-based index position of this item in its parent.

node

bookmarks.BookmarkTreeNode. Detailed information about the item that was removed.

Examples

js
function handleRemoved(id, removeInfo) {
  console.log(`Item: ${id} removed`);
  console.log(`Title: ${removeInfo.node.title}`);
  console.log(`URL: ${removeInfo.node.url}`);
}

function handleClick() {
  browser.bookmarks.onRemoved.addListener(handleRemoved);
}

browser.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(handleClick);

Example extensions

Browser compatibility

desktop mobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Firefox for Android
Safari on iOS
onRemoved
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 3 (Release date: 2009-09-15)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 79 (Release date: 2020-01-15)
footnote Full support
Firefox – Full support
Firefox 52 (Release date: 2017-03-07)
footnote Full support
Opera – Full support
Opera 15 (Release date: 2013-07-02)
footnote Full support
Safari – No support
Safari
footnote No support
Firefox for Android – No support
Firefox for Android
footnote No support
Safari on iOS – No support
Safari on iOS
footnote No support

Legend

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Full support
Full support
No support
No support

Note: This API is based on Chromium's chrome.bookmarks API. This documentation is derived from bookmarks.json in the Chromium code.