On Mar 13, 6:07 pm, Kevin Herrera wrote:
> I was wondering if it would be possible to call a function I wrote when
> ever the browser changes to a new page (new page, tab, or just refresh).
> I tried using the "onload" event but that's just for the main window
> in the browser.
>
> What I hope to achieve is collect information as the user is surfing so
> that I know what buttons to enable and disable in the sidebar I created.
>
> What I have done for now as a workaround is use the setInterval()
> function to continuously call my function but it's causing problems when
> new features I am trying to add to my extension.
>
> TIA

Have a look at the Tab event listeners at:
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs...Tabbed_browser
and also on webProgressListener at: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs...ogressListener

Using these listeners you can avoid your polling scheme of
setInterval()

HTH

stony_dreams wrote:
> On Mar 13, 6:07 pm, Kevin Herrera wrote:
>> I was wondering if it would be possible to call a function I wrote when
>> ever the browser changes to a new page (new page, tab, or just refresh).
>> I tried using the "onload" event but that's just for the main window
>> in the browser.
>>
>> What I hope to achieve is collect information as the user is surfing so
>> that I know what buttons to enable and disable in the sidebar I created.
>>
>> What I have done for now as a workaround is use the setInterval()
>> function to continuously call my function but it's causing problems when
>> new features I am trying to add to my extension.
>>
>> TIA
>
> Have a look at the Tab event listeners at:
> http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs...Tabbed_browser
> and also on webProgressListener at: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs...ogressListener
>
> Using these listeners you can avoid your polling scheme of
> setInterval()
>
> HTH

Thank you very much! I'm going to read through it and see if I can get
my code working without setInterval().

Thanks again