webNavigation.onTabReplaced

Fired when the contents of the tab is replaced by a different (usually previously pre-rendered) tab.

Syntax

js
browser.webNavigation.onTabReplaced.addListener(
  listener,                   // function
  filter                      // optional object
);
browser.webNavigation.onTabReplaced.removeListener(listener)
browser.webNavigation.onTabReplaced.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:

details

object. Details about the tab replacement.

replacedTabId

integer. The ID of the replaced tab.

tabId

integer. The ID of the replacement tab.

timeStamp

number. The time when the replacement happened, in milliseconds since the epoch.

Examples

js
function logOnTabReplaced(details) {
  console.log(`onTabReplaced ${details}`);
}

browser.webNavigation.onTabReplaced.addListener(logOnTabReplaced);

Browser compatibility

desktop mobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Firefox for Android
Safari on iOS
onTabReplaced
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 22 (Release date: 2012-09-25)
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
footnote Although you can add listeners for this event, it will never fire because the underlying functionality is not supported.
Opera – Full support
Opera 15 (Release date: 2013-07-02)
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
footnote Although you can add listeners for this event, it will never fire because the underlying functionality is not supported.
Safari on iOS – No support
Safari on iOS
footnote No support

Legend

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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.