omnibox.onDeleteSuggestion

Fired whenever the user deletes a suggestion. A suggestion can be deleted when the property deletable of a {{WebExtAPIRef("omnibox.SuggestResult","SuggestResult")}} is set to true.

Syntax

browser.omnibox.onDeleteSuggestion.addListener(listener)
browser.omnibox.onDeleteSuggestion.removeListener(listener)
browser.omnibox.onDeleteSuggestion.hasListener(listener)

Events have three functions:

• addListener(listener)
  • : Adds a listener to this event.
• removeListener(listener)
  • : Stop listening to this event. The listener argument is the listener to remove.
• hasListener(listener)
  • : Check whether listener is registered for this event. Returns true if it is listening, false otherwise.

addListener syntax

Parameters

• text
  • : string. The description of the deleted suggestion.

Examples

This example prints the deleted suggestion to the console:

function logDeletedSuggestion(text) {
  console.log(`The user deleted: ${text}`);
}

browser.omnibox.onDeleteSuggestion.addListener(logDeletedSuggestion);

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Browser compatibility

{{Compat}}

[!NOTE] This API is based on Chromium's chrome.omnibox API.