检测Chrome扩展程序后台页面控制台已打开

Question

Just like the title says, I'm wondering whether it's possible to detect when I click on "Background Page" for my test plugin on the "chrome://extensions/" page.

Right now when I open the background page, the console is undocked. I saw this post and found ways to make it work inside each content script. But is there a way to make the plugin detect it's own console opening?

This function from that post inside my background.js doesn't seem to detect anything.

chrome.tabs.query({url:'chrome-devtools://*/*'}, function(tabs){
  if (tabs.length > 0){
    console.log('opened');
  }
});

Any advice would be highly appreciated.

Answer 1

Devtools windows are not visible to tabs / windows APIs anymore.

This has changed since the answer from '14 was posted - therefore this method no longer applies.

Unfortunately, I can't find a link to the Chromium issue that implemented that.