Redirect user to my own page on after extension installation

Add-ons Development
#1

Hello,

I have developed the Firefox extension. and want to redirect to user to my page on extension installation. use following code in background script :-
browser.runtime.onInstalled.addListener(function(details){
console.log(details):
chrome.tabs.create({
url : “https://xyz.com”
});

but above code does not work.

please help

Thanks

#2

does not work

What exactly do you expect to happen and what

#3

we want to open new tab where we will redirect the user to our page on extension installation. and track the extension installation. so how to find installation event.
Thanks

#4

Damn, there was an error when I replied an the more important question was cut of -.-

“What exactly do you expect to happen and what […]” happens instead?

There is bound to be an error message or something somewhere.

#5

I want to track my extension installation. for tracking extension installation i will redirect user to my website thank you page after extension installed where will track that page. so I have used above code but that fail to redirect.

now i do not find any error or message on above code.
How to track the extension installation?

#6

If that is the only reason, I think you should just send an XHR request. To do that (and maybe also to open a tab with your url) you probably need to add a host permission (something like "https://your.domin.tld/*") to the manifest.

now i do not find any error or message on above code.
How to track the extension installation?

Go to about:debugging and open the Add-on Debugger. Then reload the extension.

#7

Hello,

I have check and try every thing but i do not find any event after extension install.

Please elaborate in details :- How to redirect the user to new tab(thanks page) on extension installation success ?

#8

In Firefox 52+ and the current Chrome and Opera, this should work:

browser.runtime.onInstalled.addListener(async ({ reason, }) => {
    if (reson !== 'install') { return; }
    const tab = (await  browser.tabs.create({
        url: 'https://your.extension.domain/installed/?v='+ browser.runtime.getManifest().version,
        active: true,
    }));
    (await Windows.update(tab.windowId, { focused: true, }));
    console.log('Opend tab and focused its window');
});

You may have to add some permissions for this.

Edit: to make this work in Chrome and Opera, you would need to polyfill a Promise based brouwser.* API.

#9

Thank you for update.

I will try this code and update.