how to trigger a chrome.tabs onClick event

Question

Is there any way to fire or simulate a click event on the currently-open Chrome tab using the chrome.tabs API?

Looking through chrome.tabs extension documentation , I'm finding events such as onHighlighted and onActivated , but they seem to deal with changing the current tab and/or window.

I'm looking for a way to respond to clicking the current tab, such as using the following code:

chrome.tabs.onClicked.addListener(function (tabId, tab) { 
    alert("Clicked!");    
});

But sadly, this doesn't work. Are there any alternatives?

Answer 1

No, there isn't. Clicking on the current tab doesn't do anything, and users wouldn't normally click there for any reason (unless of course they're about to click the X to close), so it wouldn't make sense to generate an event for that click. Doing so would give potential meaning to an unclickable part of the browser chrome, which would be really confusing for users.