webNavigation.onErrorOccurred

Fired when an error occurs and the navigation is aborted. This can happen if either a network error occurred, or the user aborted the navigation.

Syntax

js
browser.webNavigation.onErrorOccurred.addListener(
  listener,                   // function
  filter                      // optional object
)
browser.webNavigation.onErrorOccurred.removeListener(listener)
browser.webNavigation.onErrorOccurred.hasListener(listener)

Events have three functions:

addListener(listener), addListener(listener, filter)

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 listener function is called with these arguments:

details

object. Details about the navigation event. details has the following properties:

tabId

integer. The ID of the tab in which the navigation was happening.

url

string. The URL to which the given frame was navigating.

frameId

integer. Frame in which the navigation was happening.

0 indicates that navigation happened in the tab's top-level browsing context, not in a nested <iframe>.

A positive value indicates that navigation happened in a nested iframe.

Frame IDs are unique for a given tab and process.

frameType

string. The type of frame the navigation occurred in. Returns the values "outermost_frame", "fenced_frame", and "sub_frame".

parentFrameId

integer. ID of this frame's parent. Set to -1 if this is a top-level frame.

documentId

string. A UUID of the document loaded.

parentDocumentId

string. A UUID of the parent document owning the frame. Not set if there is no parent.

documentLifecycle

string. The lifecycle the document is in. Returns the values "prerender", "active", "cached", and "pending_deletion".

timeStamp

number. The time at which the error occurred, in milliseconds since the epoch.

processId Optional

integer. This value is never set in modern browsers. It used to represent the ID of the process running the renderer for this tab.

error

string. The error code. This is an internal error code, and is not guaranteed to stay the same or be consistent from one browser to another.

filter Optional

object. An object containing a single property url, which is an Array of events.UrlFilter objects.

If you include this parameter, then the event fires only for transitions to URLs which match at least one UrlFilter in the array.

If you omit this parameter, the event fires for all transitions.

Examples

Logs the target URLs for onErrorOccurred, if the target URL's hostname contains "example.com" or starts with "developer".

js
const filter = {
  url: [{ hostContains: "example.com" }, { hostPrefix: "developer" }],
};

function logOnErrorOccurred(details) {
  console.log(`onErrorOccurred: ${details.url}`);
  console.log(details.error);
}

browser.webNavigation.onErrorOccurred.addListener(logOnErrorOccurred, filter);

Browser compatibility

desktop mobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Firefox for Android
Safari on iOS
onErrorOccurred
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 16 (Release date: 2011-12-13)
footnote
footnote If the filter parameter is empty, all URLs are matched.
Edge – Full support
Edge 79 (Release date: 2020-01-15)
footnote
footnote If the filter parameter is empty, all URLs are matched.
Firefox – Full support
Firefox 45 (Release date: 2016-03-08)
footnote
footnote Filtering is supported from version 50.
footnote If the filter parameter is empty, Firefox raises an exception.
Opera – Full support
Opera 15 (Release date: 2013-07-02)
footnote
footnote If the filter parameter is empty, all URLs are matched.
Safari – Full support
Safari 14 (Release date: 2020-09-16)
footnote
footnote If the filter parameter is empty, all URLs are matched.
Firefox for Android – Full support
Firefox for Android 48 (Release date: 2016-08-02)
footnote
footnote Filtering is supported from version 50.
footnote If the filter parameter is empty, Firefox raises an exception.
Safari on iOS – Full support
Safari on iOS 15 (Release date: 2021-09-20)
footnote
footnote If the filter parameter is empty, all URLs are matched.
documentId
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 106 (Release date: 2022-09-27)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 106 (Release date: 2022-10-03)
footnote Full support
Firefox – No support
Firefox
footnote
footnote See bug 1891478
Opera – Full support
Opera 92 (Release date: 2022-10-19)
footnote Full support
Safari – Full support
Safari 18.4 (Release date: 2025-03-31)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – No support
Firefox for Android
footnote
footnote See bug 1891478
Safari on iOS – Full support
Safari on iOS 18.4 (Release date: 2025-03-31)
footnote Full support
documentLifecycle
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 106 (Release date: 2022-09-27)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 106 (Release date: 2022-10-03)
footnote Full support
Firefox – No support
Firefox
footnote No support
Opera – Full support
Opera 92 (Release date: 2022-10-19)
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
error
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 16 (Release date: 2011-12-13)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 79 (Release date: 2020-01-15)
footnote Full support
Firefox – No support
Firefox
footnote No 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
frameType
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 106 (Release date: 2022-09-27)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 106 (Release date: 2022-10-03)
footnote Full support
Firefox – No support
Firefox
footnote No support
Opera – Full support
Opera 92 (Release date: 2022-10-19)
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
parentDocumentId
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 106 (Release date: 2022-09-27)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 106 (Release date: 2022-10-03)
footnote Full support
Firefox – No support
Firefox
footnote No support
Opera – Full support
Opera 92 (Release date: 2022-10-19)
footnote Full support
Safari – Full support
Safari 18.4 (Release date: 2025-03-31)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – No support
Firefox for Android
footnote No support
Safari on iOS – Full support
Safari on iOS 18.4 (Release date: 2025-03-31)
footnote Full support
parentFrameId
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 74 (Release date: 2019-04-23)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 79 (Release date: 2020-01-15)
footnote Full support
Firefox – Full support
Firefox 45 (Release date: 2016-03-08)
footnote Full support
Opera – Full support
Opera 62 (Release date: 2019-06-27)
footnote Full support
Safari – No support
Safari
footnote No support
Firefox for Android – Full support
Firefox for Android 48 (Release date: 2016-08-02)
footnote Full support
Safari on iOS – No support
Safari on iOS
footnote No support

Legend

Tip: you can click/tap on a cell for more information.

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

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