Chrome desktop notification click to focus on content

Question

I am building desktop notification into my a chrome extension that I am working on. The functionality I need required that the user be taken to the tab that caused the notification when they click on the notification window. I can get that working using the chrome.tabs API, but what I can't manage to figure out is how to bring Chrome to the front when the notification is clicked.

I know window.focus() is disabled in chrome, but this is definitely possible to do since that's the behavior of the Gmail desktop notifications.

Answer 1

notification = webkitNotifications.createNotification(...)
notification.onclick = function(){
    window.focus();
    this.cancel();
};
notification.show()

...works as expected, without any additional permissions.

Answer 2

Use chrome.tabs.update(tabId, {active: true}); to focus a tab (not to be confused with chrome.windows.update).

The tabId is often obtained via the Tab type. This object is passed to many methods/event listeners (sometimes via the MessageSender type).