在Chrome扩展程序中将远程URL显示为弹出窗口

Question

I am developing a Chrome addon and I need to show a remote URL as a popup. I have tried the following in manifest.json .

"browser_action": {
    "default_title" : "Pennyful",
    "default_popup" : "http://www.google.com"
}

This was not working. So I handled the event and set the popup from code.

chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(function() {
    chrome.browserAction.setPopup({popup: "http://www.google.com"});
});

This also didn't work. I have also tried creating a html page packaged with the addon, and when loaded does a JS redirect to the remote website. This didn't work. Then I put a iframe inside the page and set the remote URL as source to the iframe . In this case iframe shows up, but it takes long time to load the page and the width is incorrect.

So it looks like there is no way to set a remote URL as a popup page. I'm wondering is there any way to achieve this?

Answer 1

In short, no , you can't just open an external website without using an iframe into your popup.html file.

This Google Developer Codelabs article goes through how to use external service APIs (like Twitter or Flickr) to display information from another site in your popup. That might be the way to go if an iframe doesn't work for what you're trying to do.