Fired when the extension granted new permissions.
Syntax
browser.permissions.onAdded.addListener(listener) browser.permissions.onAdded.removeListener(listener) browser.permissions.onAdded.hasListener(listener)
Events have three functions:
addListener(callback)
- 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. Returnstrue
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:
permissions
permissions.Permissions
object containing the permissions that were granted.
Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Firefox for Android | Opera | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Basic support | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
Browser compatibility
The compatibility table in this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data and send us a pull request.
Examples
function handleAdded(permissions) { console.log(`New API permissions: ${permissions.permissions}`); console.log(`New host permissions: ${permissions.origins}`); } browser.permissions.onAdded.addListener(handleAdded);
This API is based on Chromium's chrome.permissions
API.
Microsoft Edge compatibility data is supplied by Microsoft Corporation and is included here under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.