Microsoft edge shows the URL when new tab is opened - extension - microsoft-edge

I have made an extension for chrome, which opens a specific website when new tab is opened. However it works fine with chrome, but when the same extension (with changes in manifest to make it compatible with edge) is tested on microsoft edge, then on opening a new tab it loads the website, but also loads the url in the website, which I don't want. I want to website to be loaded, but not the URL, as chrome doesn't load the url. I have done something like :
CHROME:
chrome.tabs.onCreated.addListener(
function(tab){
var newTabURL = {url: 'http://www.example.com'};
if(tab.url === "chrome://newtab/")
{
// chrome.tabs.update(newTabURL);
}
console.log(tab.url);
}
);
EDGE:
function handleCreated(tab) {
var newTabURL = {url: 'https://www.example.com'};
browser.tabs.update(newTabURL);
}
browser.tabs.onCreated.addListener(handleCreated);
When a new tab is opened, the url is loaded, but I dont want the url to be shown.

It is against Microsoft's Extension policy that any Extension which tries to override a Net Tab Page it wouldn't be approved into Store and you wont be able to publish it.
Coming to your problem, it is not possible as of now to make the Address Bar blank or not to show any url.

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How do I deep link and navigate to a "LogInLoading" screen while the OAuth token exchange request is made?

Configuring my app to work with OAuth. Once I have the auth_code from the redirect uri, I want the user to be taken to a "log in loading" page, where a loading spinner is shown while the token exchange request is happening.
The app has been properly configured iOS side to allow deep linking, and I am being brought back to the app, just to the wrong page.
I have followed the official deep linking guide from React Navigation, as well as various Stack Overflow pages and Medium articles.
This is my App.tsx component:
const prefix = 'myapp://'
export const App = () => {
return (
<ThemeProvider theme={theme}>
<Routes uriPrefix={prefix} />
</ThemeProvider>
)
}
This is my Routes.ts:
const AuthStack = createStackNavigator({ Onboarding: OnboardingFlowScreen, SignIn: SignInScreen })
const AppTabBar = createBottomTabNavigator({ Feed: FeedScreen, Create: CreateScreen, Profile: ProfileScreen })
export const Routes = createAppContainer(
createSwitchNavigator({
AuthLoading: AuthLoadingScreen,
LogInLoading: { screen: LogInLoadingScreen, path: 'auth_success' },
App: AppTabBar,
Auth: AuthStack,
})
)
I should be brought back to the app and navigated to the LogInLoading screen. Am I misunderstanding? Shouldn't Linking.openURL('myapp://auth_success') take me to the page with path auth_success specified?
The URL can only launch your application.
To take the user to a particular screen, you need to provide navigation context based on the URL.
Whenever your app is opened through a remote URL, you get a call back in AppDelegate in method AppDelegate.application(_:open:options:) Here you can navigate to the screen you want.
Offocial Apple Documentation on URL Scheme
Refer to a question here IOS: Load a View Controller When App is Launched from Browser using url schemes?

Use Firefox add-on SDK to construct a web page

I would like to build an Firefox extension which after users click it, a web page is dynamically constructed and opened in a new tab.
In "tab" API, I only saw tab.open() open a hyperlink to a remote website. Can I construct a JavaScript variable contains all the HTML contents (Like var page = "blahblah....") and open it? How to do that?
You don't have to dynamically construct it, just put a htm page in your addon and then the link to it will be resource://your addon id/blah.htm. This addon here creates a page: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/twitch-alarm
You can also create an about:blah url to your page, this shows how to do it without the sdk: github.com/Noitidart/ZooniverseXpert
You don't have to create a html page dynamically but put a html page in your addon and refer it when you open a tab.
tabs.open({
url : self.data.url("js/error.html"),
onReady : function(tab) {
var errorWorker = tab.attach({
contentScriptFile : self.data.url("js/error.js")
});
errorWorker.port.emit("error_page",message);
}
});
Here I am displaying an error page which is stored in my addon and attaching a content script file to dynamically change the contents of html page through message passing between main.js and error page.
Hope it is of some use to you.

PhoneGap InAppBrowser: open iOS Safari Browser

In our PhoneGap iOS application, we are using the InAppBrowser plugin to display some content, and we need to open a page in Safari from within the InAppBrowser.
How can we have links from within the InAppBrowser open in Safari?
From the phonegap documentation:
Opens a URL in a new InAppBrowser instance, the current browser instance, or the system browser.
var ref = window.open(url, target, options);
ref: Reference to the InAppBrowser window. (InAppBrowser)
url: The URL to load (String). Call encodeURI() on this if the URL contains Unicode characters.
target: The target in which to load the URL, an optional parameter that defaults to _self. (String)
_self: Opens in the Cordova WebView if the URL is in the white list, otherwise it opens in the InAppBrowser.
_blank: Opens in the InAppBrowser.
_system: Opens in the system's web browser.
So to answer your question, use:
window.open(your_url, '_system', opts);
Note that the domain will need to be white-listed.
Update 4/25/2014:
I think I kind of misunderstood the question (thanks to commenter #peteorpeter) -- you want to have some way to click a link in the InAppBrowser and have that open in the system browser (e.g. Mobile Safari on iOS). This is possible, but it will require some forethought and cooperation between the app developer and the person responsible for the links on the page.
When you create an IAB instance, you get a reference to it back:
var ref = window.open('http://foo.com', '_blank', {...});
You can register a few event listeners on that reference:
ref.addEventListener('loadStart', function(event){ ... });
This particular event is fired every time the URL of the IAB changes (e.g. a link is clicked, the server returns a 302, etc...), and you can inspect the new URL.
To break out into the system browser, you need some sort of flag defined in the URL. You could do any number of things, but for this example let's assume there's a systemBrowser flag in the url:
.....html?foo=1&systemBrowser=true
You'll look for that flag in your event handler, and when found, kick out to the system browser:
ref.addEventListener('loadStart', function(event){
if (event.url.indexOf('systemBrowser') > 0){
window.open(event.url, '_system', null);
}
});
Note that this is not the best method for detecting the flag in the url (could lead to false positives, possibly) and I'm pretty sure that PhoneGap whitelist rules will still apply.
Unfortunately target=_system does not work from within the InAppBrowser. (This would work if the link originated in the parent app, though.)
You could add an event listener to the IAB and sniff for a particular url pattern, as you mention in your comments, if that fit your use case.
iab.addEventListener('loadstart', function(event) {
if (event.url.indexOf("openinSafari") != -1) {
window.open(event.url, '_system');
}
}
The 'event' here is not a real browser event - it is a construct of the IAB plugin - and doesn't support event.preventDefault(), so the IAB will also load the url (in addition to Safari). You might try to handle that event within the IAB, with something like:
iab.addEventListener('loadstop', function(event) {
iab.executeScript('functionThatPreventsOpenInSafariLinksFromGoingAnywhere');
}
...which I have not tested.
This message is for clarification:
If you open an another with window.open by catching a link on loadstart, it will kill yor eventhandlers that assigned to first IAB.
For example,
iab = window.open('http://example.com', '_blank', 'location=no,hardwareback=yes,toolbar=no');
iab.addEventListener('loadstop', function(event) {console.log('stop: ' + event.url);});
iab.addEventListener('loaderror', function(event) { console.log('loaderror: ' + event.message); });
iab.addEventListener('loadstart', function(event) {
if (event.url.indexOf("twitter") != -1){
var ref2 = window.open(event.url, '_system', null);
}
});
When the second window.open executed, it will kill all the event listeners that you binded before. Also loadstop event will not be fired after that window.open executed.
I'm finding another way to avoid but nothing found yet..
window.open() doesn't work for me from within an InAppBrowser, whether or not I add a script reference to cordova.js to get support for window.open(...'_system'), so I came up with the following solution which tunnels the "external" URL back to the IAB host through the hashtag so it can be opened there.
Inside the InAppBrowser instance (I'm using AngularJS, but you can replace angular.element with jQuery or $ if you're using jQuery):
angular.element(document).find('a').on('click', function(e) {
var targetUrl = angular.element(this).attr('href');
if(targetUrl.indexOf('http') === 0) {
e.preventDefault();
window.open('#' + targetUrl);
}
});
Note that that's the native window.open above, not cordova.js's window.open. Also, the handler code assumes that all URLs that start with http should be externally loaded. You can change the filter as you like to allow some URLs to be loaded in the IAB and others in Safari.
Then, in the code from the parent that created the InAppBrowser:
inAppBrowser.addEventListener('loadstart', function(e) {
if(e.url.indexOf('#') > 0) {
var tunneledUrl = e.url.substring(e.url.indexOf('#') + 1);
window.open(tunneledUrl, '_system', null);
}
});
With this solution the IAB remains on the original page and doesn't trigger a back-navigation arrow to appear, and the loadstart handler is able to open the requested URL in Safari.

Links will not open in iframe target in an iOS standalone web app

I am running into a pickle. When I view my web app within mobile safari via iOS 6, I am able to successfully open up my basic target links <a href="link.html" target="mainframe"into my retrospective iframe <iframe src="http://www.linkexample.org/" name="mainframe"></iframe>
Though when the app is opened via standalone all the links exit out of the app and into Mobile Safari. You can see a working example at http://lacitilop.com/m2
Anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this?
You'll need to write some javascript to change the src of the iframe.
For a start, get your app working so that links will not open Safari by using something like the following (it's using jquery by the way):
if (window.navigator.standalone) {
$(document).on(
"click",
"a",
function (event) {
event.preventDefault();
var aurl = $(event.target).attr("href");
if (aurl) {
location.href = $(event.target).attr("href");
}
else {
location.href = this;
}
}
);
}
then you'll need to modify it to work with iframes too.
For more iphone app stuff you'll want to look at this:
http://developer.apple.com/library/safari/#documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/ConfiguringWebApplications/ConfiguringWebApplications.html

how to get url from browser in blackberry?

In BB when user typed any URL into the browser and hit enter.... then is it possible to get/track/fetch that url..???
shuld i implement any ineterface in my application.......that can track, when user opens the browser and passes a url.
I just want to tell that my application will run in the background......and from background I want to get the URL from BB's native browser. Means when user open the browser and pass a url, I have to get that url and check whether my Application should block that or not.
My application need is -
1) get the url, whatever user have typed in the browser field of the browser...
2) send that url to the server, in the form of xml
3) check response from the server......
4) if response value is "yes" then do nothing...
5) but if response value is "no" then block that URL ( regiseter that - URL into HttpFilterRegistery )
I have develop the code to add my own menu-item into the Browser.
By clicking on that custom-menu-item, I am receiving the URL successfully. But this doesn't meet my requirement actually.
As I told earlier, I want to track the browser application pro-grammatically through a third party application. So Is there any way, whenever Browser app comes to foreground, we can get the menu-item instance of the Browser (native application). So that I can run the custom menu item pro-grammatically.
I have used the following code:
Screen screen = Ui.getUiEngine().getActiveScreen();
System.out.println("\n\n**** " + screen.getClass().getName());
Menu menu = screen.getMenu(1);
for (int i = 0, cnt = menu.getSize(); i < cnt; i++)
System.out.println(" menu item : " + menu.getItem(i).toString());
System.out.println("\n\n");
I am successfully tracking the applications whichever comes to foreground through a background thread of my application, but even then My third party application's thread can't get the menu-instance of the foreground-native applications. It always return the instance of my application's screen...
output of the above code :
** mypackage.AppDemoScreen
menu item : Show Keyboard
menu item : Switch Application
menu item : Full Menu
you can use ApplicationDescriptor , and here is an example to add a new menu item with with the ability to avoid duble the custem menu item , also the code to recept the data from the browser and send it to the class you want
http://pastebin.com/BTSBL8AN

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