contextualIdentities.onUpdated

Fired when the properties of a contextual identity, such as its name, icon, or color, are changed. Contextual identities may be updated by extensions using the contextualIdentities API, or directly by the user, using the browser's user interface.

Syntax

js
browser.contextualIdentities.onUpdated.addListener(listener)
browser.contextualIdentities.onUpdated.removeListener(listener)
browser.contextualIdentities.onUpdated.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 this argument:

changeInfo

object. An object that contains a single property, contextualIdentity, which is a contextualIdentities.ContextualIdentity object representing the identity whose properties were updated.

Examples

js
function handleUpdated(changeInfo) {
  console.log(`Updated: ${changeInfo.contextualIdentity.name}`);
}

browser.contextualIdentities.onUpdated.addListener(handleUpdated);

Browser compatibility

desktop mobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Firefox for Android
Safari on iOS
onUpdated
Chrome – No support
Chrome
footnote No support
Edge – No support
Edge
footnote No support
Firefox – Full support
Firefox 57 (Release date: 2017-11-14)
footnote Full support
Opera – No support
Opera
footnote No support
Safari – No support
Safari
footnote No support
Firefox for Android – No support
Firefox for Android
footnote
footnote Until Firefox for Android 137 contextualIdentities is defined but not functional. From Firefox for Android 138 contextualIdentities is inaccessible.
footnote See bug 1638878
Safari on iOS – No support
Safari on iOS
footnote No support

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Full support
Full support
No support
No support
See implementation notes.