chrome.runtime.sendMessage({}, function(response) {
    if (response.data === undefined) {
      attempt++;
      setTimeout(function() {
        askForData();
      }, 10 * attempt);
    } else {
      loadHighlights(response.data);
      website = response.website;
      if (DEBUG) console.log("Setting website to: " + website);
      token = response.token;
      email = response.email;
    }
  });

chrome.tabs.query({active: true, currentWindow: true}, function(tabs) {
  chrome.tabs.sendMessage(tabs[0].id, {greeting: "hello"}, function(response) {
    console.log(response.farewell);
  });
});

chrome.tabs.query({}, function(tabs) {
    var message = {foo: bar};
    for (var i=0; i<tabs.length; ++i) {
        chrome.tabs.sendMessage(tabs[i].id, message);
    }
});

chrome.runtime.onMessage.addListener(
  function(request, sender, sendResponse) {
    console.log(sender.tab ?
                "from a content script:" + sender.tab.url :
                "from the extension");
    if (request.greeting == "hello")
      sendResponse({farewell: "goodbye"});
});

    // Save it using the Chrome extension storage API.
    chrome.storage.sync.set({'foo': 'hello', 'bar': 'hi'}, function() {
      console.log('Settings saved');
    });

    // Read it using the storage API
    chrome.storage.sync.get(['foo', 'bar'], function(items) {
      message('Settings retrieved', items);
    });

chrome.runtime.onInstalled.addListener(function(details) {
  // TODO: remove update
  if (details.reason === "install" || details.reason === "update") {
    chrome.tabs.create({ url: chrome.extension.getURL("index.html") });
  }

  chrome.declarativeContent.onPageChanged.removeRules(undefined, function() {
    chrome.declarativeContent.onPageChanged.addRules([
      {
        conditions: [
          new chrome.declarativeContent.PageStateMatcher({
            pageUrl: { urlMatches: ".*" }
          })
        ],
        actions: [new chrome.declarativeContent.ShowPageAction()]
      }
    ]);
  });
});

// show the popup when the user clicks on the page action.
chrome.pageAction.onClicked.addListener(function(tab) {
  if (DEBUG) console.log("showing popup");
  chrome.pageAction.show(tab.id);
});

chrome.identity.getProfileUserInfo(function(info) {
  email = info.email;
});

  "background":
    {
        "scripts": ["thirdParty/jquery-2.0.3.js", "background.js"]
    }

"content_scripts":
    [
        {
            "matches":["http://website*"],
            "js":["thirdParty/jquery.1.10.2.min.js", "script.js"],
            "css": ["css/style.css"],
            "run_at": "document_end"
        }
    ]

function getword(info,tab) {
  console.log("Word " + info.selectionText + " was clicked.");
  chrome.tabs.create({
    url: "http://www.google.com/search?q=" + info.selectionText
  });
}
chrome.contextMenus.create({
  title: "Search: %s",
  contexts:["selection"],
  onclick: getword
});

{
    "name": "App name",
    "version": "1.0",
    "manifest_version": 2,
    "description": "Your description",
    "permissions": [
      "contextMenus"
     ],
    "background": {
      "scripts": ["script.js"]
    }
}

{
    "name": "My extension",
    ...
    "permissions": [
        "http://www.example.com/*"
    ],
    ...
}

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();

xhr.open("GET", "http://www.example.com?par=0", false);
xhr.send();


# Modifying current url location

var result = xhr.responseText;