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Command

Information about the settings for the commands specified in the commands manifest.json key.

An array of these objects is returned from commands.getAll().

Type

A value of this type is an object containing these properties for the commands:

name

string. Name of the command. This is passed into the commands.onCommand event listener.

description Optional

string. Description of the command. This is used to explain to the user what this command does.

shortcut Optional

string. Keys used to execute the command, specified as a string. See the shortcut values section of the commands manifest key documentation for more details.

description and shortcut reflect the values given in the commands manifest.json key unless they have been updated with commands.update() or, in the case of the shortcut, customized by the user.

Browser compatibility

Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Firefox for Android
Safari on iOS
Command
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 25 (Release date: 2013-02-21)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 79 (Release date: 2020-01-15)
footnote Full support
Firefox – Full support
Firefox 48 (Release date: 2016-08-02)
footnote Full support
Opera – Full support
Opera 15 (Release date: 2013-07-02)
footnote Full support
Safari – Full support
Safari 14 (Release date: 2020-09-16)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – No support
Firefox for Android
footnote No support
Safari on iOS – Full support
Safari on iOS 15 (Release date: 2021-09-20)
footnote Full support
description
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 25 (Release date: 2013-02-21)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 79 (Release date: 2020-01-15)
footnote Full support
Firefox – Full support
Firefox 48 (Release date: 2016-08-02)
footnote Full support
Opera – Full support
Opera 15 (Release date: 2013-07-02)
footnote Full support
Safari – Full support
Safari 14 (Release date: 2020-09-16)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – No support
Firefox for Android
footnote No support
Safari on iOS – Full support
Safari on iOS 15 (Release date: 2021-09-20)
footnote Full support
name
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 25 (Release date: 2013-02-21)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 79 (Release date: 2020-01-15)
footnote Full support
Firefox – Full support
Firefox 48 (Release date: 2016-08-02)
footnote Full support
Opera – Full support
Opera 15 (Release date: 2013-07-02)
footnote Full support
Safari – Full support
Safari 14 (Release date: 2020-09-16)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – No support
Firefox for Android
footnote No support
Safari on iOS – Full support
Safari on iOS 15 (Release date: 2021-09-20)
footnote Full support
shortcut
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 25 (Release date: 2013-02-21)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 79 (Release date: 2020-01-15)
footnote Full support
Firefox – Full support
Firefox 48 (Release date: 2016-08-02)
footnote Full support
Opera – Full support
Opera 15 (Release date: 2013-07-02)
footnote Full support
Safari – Full support
Safari 14 (Release date: 2020-09-16)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – No support
Firefox for Android
footnote No support
Safari on iOS – Full support
Safari on iOS 15 (Release date: 2021-09-20)
footnote Full support

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Full support
No support

Note: This API is based on Chromium's chrome.commands API.

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