tabGroups.onUpdated

Fires when a tab group's state changes.

This event does not fire when the group's membership changes or when a tab group is moved. Those updates are covered by tabs.onUpdated and tabGroups.onMoved respectively.

To detect windowId changes, use tabGroups.onMoved instead.

Syntax

js
browser.tabGroups.onUpdated.addListener(listener)
browser.tabGroups.onUpdated.removeListener(listener)
browser.tabGroups.onUpdated.hasListener(listener)

Events have three functions:

addListener(listener)

Adds a listener to this event.

removeListener(listener)

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

hasListener(listener)

Checks 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:

group

tabGroups.TabGroup. Details of the updated tab group's state.

Examples

Listen for and log tab group updates:

js
function tabGroupUpdated(group) {
  console.log(`Tab group with ID ${group.id} was updated.`, group);
}

browser.tabGroups.onUpdated.addListener(tabGroupUpdated);

Browser compatibility

desktop mobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Firefox for Android
Safari on iOS
onUpdated
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 89 (Release date: 2021-03-02)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 89 (Release date: 2021-03-04)
footnote Full support
Firefox – Full support
Firefox 139 (Release date: 2025-05-27)
footnote Full support
Opera – Full support
Opera 75 (Release date: 2021-03-24)
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

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