tabs.move()
Moves one or more tabs to a new position in the same window or to a different window.
You can only move tabs to and from windows whose WindowType
is "normal"
.
This is an asynchronous function that returns a Promise
.
Syntax
js
let moving = browser.tabs.move(
tabIds, // integer or integer array
moveProperties // object
)
Parameters
tabIds
-
integer
orarray
ofinteger
. ID of thetab
to move, or an array of tab IDs. moveProperties
-
object
. An object that specifies where to move the tab(s).windowId
Optional-
integer
. The ID of the window to which you want to move the tab(s). If you omit this, then each tab intabIds
will be moved toindex
in its current window. If you include this, andtabIds
contains more than one tab, then the first tab intabIds
will be moved toindex
, and the other tabs will follow it in the order given intabIds
. index
-
integer
. The index position to move the tab to, starting at 0. A value of -1 will place the tab at the end of the window.If you pass a value less than -1, the function will throw an error.
Note that you can't move pinned tabs to a position after any unpinned tabs in a window, or move any unpinned tabs to a position before any pinned tabs. For example, if you have one or more pinned tabs in the target window and
tabIds
refers to an unpinned tab, then you can't pass 0 here. If you try to do this, the function will silently fail (it will not throw an error).
Return value
A Promise
that will be fulfilled with a
object or an tabs.Tab
array
of
objects, containing details about the moved tabs. If no tabs were moved (for example, because you tried to move an unpinned tab before a pinned tab) this will be an empty array. If any error occurs, the promise will be rejected with an error message.tabs.Tab
Examples
Move the first tab in the current window to the last position in the current window:
js
function onMoved(tab) {
console.log(`Moved: ${tab}`);
}
function onError(error) {
console.log(`Error: ${error}`);
}
function firstToLast(windowInfo) {
if (windowInfo.tabs.length === 0) {
return;
}
let moving = browser.tabs.move(windowInfo.tabs[0].id, {index: -1});
moving.then(onMoved, onError);
}
browser.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(() => {
let gettingCurrent = browser.windows.getCurrent({populate: true});
gettingCurrent.then(firstToLast, onError);
});
Move all tabs served over HTTP or HTTPS from *.mozilla.org to the end of their window:
js
function onMoved(tab) {
console.log(`Moved: ${tab}`);
}
function onError(error) {
console.log(`Error: ${error}`);
}
function moveMoz(tabs) {
let mozTabIds = tabs.map((tabInfo) => tabInfo.id);
let moving = browser.tabs.move(mozTabIds, {index: -1});
moving.then(onMoved, onError);
}
browser.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(() => {
let gettingMozTabs = browser.tabs.query({url:"*://*.mozilla.org/*"});
gettingMozTabs.then(moveMoz, onError);
});
Move all tabs served over HTTP or HTTPS from *.mozilla.org to the window that hosts the first such tab, starting at position 0:
js
function onMoved(tab) {
console.log(`Moved: ${tab}`);
}
function onError(error) {
console.log(`Error: ${error}`);
}
function moveMoz(tabs) {
let mozTabIds = tabs.map((tabInfo) => tabInfo.id);
let targetWindow = tabs[0].windowId;
let moving = browser.tabs.move(mozTabIds, {windowId: targetWindow, index: 0});
moving.then(onMoved, onError);
}
browser.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(() => {
let gettingMozTabs = browser.tabs.query({url:"*://*.mozilla.org/*"});
gettingMozTabs.then(moveMoz, onError);
});
Example extensions
Browser compatibility
BCD tables only load in the browser
Note: This API is based on Chromium's chrome.tabs
API. This documentation is derived from tabs.json
in the Chromium code.getZoom