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    <p>I am building this Google Chrome extension that will override Chrome Browser homepage with custom google search engine.</p> <p>This custom google search engine suppose to returns the result from the query that the user entered. To test this, i first build the html version of this custom search engine first and it works well. Below is the screenshot :</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Yfg06.png" alt="enter image description here"></p> <p>But when i tried to make it as the chrome extension, it fails with no search results being returned. </p> <p><strong>here is my main.html :</strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;HTML&gt; &lt;HEAD&gt; &lt;script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.9.1.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;script src="search.js" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;TITLE&gt;Search or Share&lt;/TITLE&gt; &lt;link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="main.css" /&gt; &lt;/HEAD&gt; &lt;BODY&gt; &lt;center&gt; &lt;div id="page-wrap"&gt; &lt;div style="height:30px"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;center&gt; &lt;div id="logo"&gt;&lt;img src="logo.png" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;input type="text" title="Real Time Search" id="searchbox" name="searchbox"/&gt; &lt;/center&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;div id="search-content"&gt; &lt;div class="content" style="width:600px; display:inline"&gt; &lt;div class="header"&gt;Web&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="data" id="web-content"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/center&gt; &lt;div id="footer"&gt; Copyright &amp;copy; 2013 &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/BODY&gt; &lt;SCRIPT src="main.js"&gt;&lt;/SCRIPT&gt; &lt;/HTML&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>and here is my manifest.json :</strong></p> <pre><code>{ "name": "Search or Share", "version": "0.2", "incognito": "split", "background": { "scripts": ["jquery-1.9.1.js","search.js","main.js"] }, "permissions": [ "http://www.google.com/*" ], "chrome_url_overrides": { "newtab": "main.html" }, "manifest_version": 2 } </code></pre> <p><strong>here is my search.js</strong> :</p> <pre><code>google.load('search','1'); </code></pre> <p><strong>and this last one is my main.js file :</strong></p> <pre><code>// Define variables var webSearch; var lastSearch = 0; //Init function $(function () { webSearch = new google.search.WebSearch(); webSearch.setSearchCompleteCallback(this, webSearchComplete, [webSearch, lastSearch]); $('#searchbox').focus(); }); // Begin search on keyup (realtime) $('#searchbox').keyup(function () { var query = $(this).val(); search(query); }); // Search for the query function search(query) { if (query.length &gt; 0) { $("#search-content").show(); } else { $("#search-content").hide(); } webSearch.execute(query); } function webSearchComplete(searcher, searchNum) { var contentDiv = document.getElementById('web-content'); contentDiv.innerHTML = ''; var results = searcher.results; var newResultsDiv = document.createElement('div'); newResultsDiv.id = 'web-content'; for (var i = 0; i &lt; results.length; i++) { var result = results[i]; var resultHTML = '&lt;div style="height:70px; margin-top:5px;"&gt;'; resultHTML += '&lt;a href="' + result.unescapedUrl + '" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;b&gt;' + result.titleNoFormatting + '&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;' + result.content + '&lt;div/&gt;'; newResultsDiv.innerHTML += resultHTML; } contentDiv.appendChild(newResultsDiv); } </code></pre> <p>*i have made the jsapi.js script too, but it is too long so i dont post it here.</p> <p>Why is this happening? is it because chrome wont allow any interaction with the outside server on its homepage or what? Thanks!</p>
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    1. COMove your inline script to a seperate JS file. Open the console for your extension page, and you would have seen a warning about violation of the [Content Security Policy](https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/contentSecurityPolicy.html).
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    2. COok, i have done like what you said, moving my inline scripts to seperate js file (see above for the changes) but still the search results wont come out. What else could i have possibly done wrong? thanks!
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    3. CO`http://www.google.com/` -> `http://www.google.com/*`. Check the errors in the console, you'll be able to debug a large part of the problem yourself.
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