tabGroups.onUpdated

Fires when a tab group's state changes.

This event does not fire when the group's membership changes or when a tab group is moved. Those updates are covered by tabs.onUpdated and tabGroups.onMoved respectively.

To detect windowId changes, use tabGroups.onMoved instead.

Syntax

js
browser.tabGroups.onUpdated.addListener(listener)
browser.tabGroups.onUpdated.removeListener(listener)
browser.tabGroups.onUpdated.hasListener(listener)

Events have three functions:

addListener(listener)

Adds a listener to this event.

removeListener(listener)

Stops listening to this event. The listener argument is the listener to remove.

hasListener(listener)

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

addListener syntax

Parameters

listener

The function called when this event occurs. The function is passed this argument:

group

tabGroups.TabGroup. Details of the updated tab group's state.

Examples

Listen for and log tab group updates:

js
function tabGroupUpdated(group) {
  console.log(`Tab group with ID ${group.id} was updated.`, group);
}

browser.tabGroups.onUpdated.addListener(tabGroupUpdated);

Browser compatibility