Can you access chrome:// pages from an extension?
When you're writing the manifest.json file, you have to specify matches
for your content scripts. The http
and https
work fine, but if I try to include chrome://*/*
or any variant of it, I get an error that I'm attempting to use an invalid scheme for my matches
.
Is it not allowed?
By default you cannot run on a chrome://
url page.
However, there is an option in chrome://flags/#extensions-on-chrome-urls
:
Extensions on chrome:// URLs (Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android)
Enables running extensions on chrome:// URLs, where extensions explicitly request this permission.
You still have to specify pages that your extension can run on and wildcards are not accepted - so you have to specify the full URL eg chrome://extensions/
The authorized schemes for matches
are http
, https
, file
, ftp
.
Therefore, chrome
is not a valid scheme.
Yes, it is not allowed. You can't link to them from hrefs on a webpage either.