events

Common types used by APIs that dispatch events.

Types

• {{WebExtAPIRef("events.Rule")}}
  • : Description of a declarative rule for handling events.
• {{WebExtAPIRef("events.Event")}}
  • : An object which allows the addition and removal of listeners for a browser event.
• {{WebExtAPIRef("events.UrlFilter")}}
  • : Filters URLs for various criteria. If any of the given criteria match, then the whole filter matches.

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Browser compatibility

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[!NOTE] This API is based on Chromium's chrome.events API. This documentation is derived from events.json in the Chromium code.

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