contextualIdentities.onUpdated

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Syntax
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Browser compatibility
Examples

Fired when the properties of a contextual identity, such as its name, icon, or color, are changed. Contextual identities may be updated by extensions using the contextualIdentities API, or directly by the user, using the browser's user interface.

Syntax

browser.contextualIdentities.onUpdated.addListener(listener)
browser.contextualIdentities.onUpdated.removeListener(listener)
browser.contextualIdentities.onUpdated.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

callback

Function that will be called when this event occurs. The function will be passed the following arguments:

changeInfo: object. An object that contains a single property, contextualIdentity, which is a contextualIdentities.ContextualIdentity object representing the identity whose properties were updated.

Browser compatibility

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	Desktop				Mobile
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Opera	Firefox for Android
`onUpdated`	Chrome No support No	Edge No support No	Firefox Full support 57	Opera No support No	Firefox Android Full support 57

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Full support: Full support
No support: No support

Examples

function handleUpdated(changeInfo) {
  console.log(`Updated: ${changeInfo.contextualIdentity.name}`);
}

browser.contextualIdentities.onUpdated.addListener(handleUpdated);

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