browserAction.openPopup()

Open the browser action's popup.

In stable versions of Firefox, you can only call this function from inside the handler for a user action. See Browser compatibility for details.

Syntax

browser.browserAction.openPopup(
 options // optional object
)

Parameters

details Optional

An object with the following properties:

windowId Optional

integer. Window to open the popup for. Defaults to the current window.

Return value

A Promise that is resolved with no arguments.

Examples

Open the popup when the user selects a context menu item:

browser.menus.create({
 id: "open-popup",
 title: "open popup",
 contexts: ["all"],
});
browser.menus.onClicked.addListener(() => {
 browser.browserAction.openPopup();
});

Browser compatibility