windows.getAll()

Gets information about all open windows, passing them into a callback.

Syntax

chrome.windows.getAll(
  getInfo,                // optional object
  function(windows) {...} // function
)

This API is also available as browser.windows.getAll() in a version that returns a promise.

Parameters

getInfoOptional

object. This controls what windows.Window objects are retrieved.

populateOptional

boolean. Defaults to false. If set to true, each windows.Window object will have a tabs property that contains a list of tabs.Tab objects representing the tabs in that window. The Tab objects only contain the url, title and favIconUrl properties if the extension's manifest file includes the "tabs" permission.

windowTypesOptional

An array of windows.WindowType objects. If set, the windows.Window objects returned will be filtered based on their type. If unset the default filter is set to ['normal', 'panel', 'popup'], with 'panel' window types limited to the extension's own windows.

callback

function. The function is passed the following arguments:

windows

An array of windows.Window objects — all windows matching the specified windowTypes or its default value.

Browser compatibility

The compatibility table in this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data and send us a pull request.

Examples

Log the URLs for the tabs across all "normal" browser windows. Note that you'll need the "tabs" permission to access tab URLs.

function logTabsForWindows(windowInfoArray) {
  for (windowInfo of windowInfoArray) {
    console.log("Window " + windowInfo.id);
    console.log(windowInfo.tabs.map((tab) => {return tab.url}));
  }
}
chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(() => {
  chrome.windows.getAll({
    populate: true,
    windowTypes: ["normal"]
  }, logTabsForWindows);
});

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