favicon

This sample demonstrates the favicon manifest permission by displaying the favicon of a url in the extension popup.

Overview

The extension calls chrome.runtime.getURL('/_favicon/') to create a fully-qualified URL pointing to the "_favicon/" folder. Then it returns a new string representing the URL with several query parameters. Finally, the extension appends the image to the body of the extension popup.

Running this extension

1. Clone this repository.
2. Load this directory in Chrome as an unpacked extension.
3. Pin the extension to the taskbar to access the action button.
4. Open the extension popup by clicking the action button.