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copied!<p>I'm trying to create a Chrome extension that is a replacement for the Delicious bookmarklet. I know there's already an extension that does it, but the problem with that extension is that after you bookmark a site, the popup window stays open (as opposed to using the bookmarklet, where the popup closes itself after submitting the form. I recreated the extension and ran into the same problem. </p> <p>Here's my code:</p> <p><strong>manifest.json:</strong></p> <pre><code>{ "name": "Delicious", "version": "1.0", "description": "Bookmark a site on Delicious", "background_page": "background.html", "permissions": [ "tabs" ], "browser_action": { "default_icon": "delicious.png" }, "content_scripts": [ { "matches": ["http://www.delicious.com/save*"], "js": ["contentscript.js"] } ] } </code></pre> <p><strong>background.html:</strong></p> <pre><code><html><script> chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(function(tab) { chrome.tabs.getSelected(null, function(tab) { w = window.open('http://delicious.com/save?url='+ encodeURIComponent(tab.url)+ '&title='+encodeURIComponent(tab.title)+ '&v=5&noui=1&jump=close', 'deliciousuiv5', 'location=yes,links=no,scrollbars=no,toolbar=no,width=550,height=550'); }); }); </script></html> </code></pre> <p><strong>contentscript.js:</strong></p> <pre><code>if (document.URL == 'http://www.delicious.com/save') { alert('closing...'); self.close(); alert('should have closed by now'); } </code></pre> <p>When I click the Delicious button, the popup comes up fine and I can save the bookmark but after I click "Save", the popup does not close. Both alerts show up, but <code>self.close()</code> doesn't seem to do anything. When I remove the URL check in contentscript.js, the popup comes up as normal, the first alert fires right away, and then the popup closes itself (as it should).</p> <p>Why doesn't this work? It doesn't seem like Chrome is preventing me from doing self.close(). Is Delicious doing something? Is it something else?</p> <p>The files are here if you want them: [link removed because drop.io went out of business]</p>

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