tabs.onHighlightChanged

Fired when the highlighted or selected tabs in a window changes.

browser.tabs.onHighlightChanged.addListener(listener)
browser.tabs.onHighlightChanged.removeListener(listener)
browser.tabs.onHighlightChanged.hasListener(listener)

Events have three functions:

addListener(callback)

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.

callback

Function that will be called when this event occurs. The function will be passed the following arguments:

selectInfo

object.

windowId

integer. The window whose tabs changed.

tabIds

array of integer. All highlighted tabs in the window.

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