javascript - How to reference the version information in a Google Chrome extension?

Question

I use

chrome.tabs.create({url:"URL here"})

to open a new tab in my LRG. To this URL I want to append the version number of the extension, which is specified in the manifest.json file:

"version": "1.2",

How can I access the version number in javascript at the time of creating the new tab?

Answer 1

Try in your extension:

chrome.app.getDetails().version

I don't know why it's not among other APIs but it works in my Chrome 13 beta. Rather test it in older versions of Chrome :).

EDIT: It's probably a little buggy