runtime.onStartup

Fired when a profile that has this extension installed first starts up. This event is not fired when a private browsing/incognito profile is started, even if this extension is operating in 'split' incognito mode.

Syntax

browser.runtime.onStartup.addListener(listener)
browser.runtime.onStartup.removeListener(listener)
browser.runtime.onStartup.hasListener(listener)

Event Functions

All events have three functions:

addListener(listener)

Adds a listener to the calling event.

removeListener(listener)

Stop listening to the calling event. The listener argument is the listener to remove.

hasListener(listener)

Checks whether a listener is registered for the calling event. Returns true if it is listening, false otherwise.

Parameters

The only parameter is listener, used for any of the above functions.

listener

A function that will be called when this event occurs.

Browser compatibility

BCD tables only load in the browser

Examples

Open https://giphy.com/explore/cat when the browser starts up:

function handleStartup() {
  browser.tabs.create({
    url: "https://giphy.com/explore/cat"
  });
}

browser.runtime.onStartup.addListener(handleStartup);

Note: This API is based on Chromium's chrome.runtime API. This documentation is derived from runtime.json in the Chromium code.

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