Unable to trigger chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener with google chrome extensions

Question

I\'m a bit stuck here and was wondering if anyone can point out where I might be wrong.

I am simply trying to make the body color change to red on click of the app i

Answer 1

If you define default_popup, you can't have a listener for browserAction.onClicked. In this case you can simply add the code in your handler to your popup.js.

EDIT: That is, add to popup.js the following:

chrome.tabs.executeScript(null, {code:"document.body.bgColor='red'"});