Get text (not url) from address bar in Google Chrome

Question

I want to retrieve the text that the user has typed into the currently visible address bar, using Javascript. This is for google chrome only.

Is this possible? I kno

Answer 1

Even with extensions this is impossible -- at least in google chrome.

Under the current extensions platform for Chromium, addons are little more than javascript programs with minorly elevated privileges; the nearest correspondence would be the Greasemonkey scripts so popular in Firefox.

As an extension developer, I am very unhappy with this situation, and am looking forward to its (inevitable) change and growth.

For the moment, unfortunately, such things as your question are completely impossible.