How to add a custom item into the chrome context menu?

Question

Is there any API to be used to add a custom item into the chrome context menu?

For example:

Now, I wanna add a "send to ..." item to context menu(right click), when it is clicked the contents selected in the webpage will be sent to someone.

I searched the chrome APIS and found that chrome.experimental.contextMenu is competent for my requirement, however it is experimental API so something like "path_to_chrome.exe --enable-experimental-extension-apis" will be added.

Any other solutions?

Answer 1

Now (for long time) you have an option.

1. Add this permission to your manifest.json file

   "permissions": ["contextMenus"]
   

2. Then, something like that will do the trick:

   chrome.contextMenus.create({
     'title' : 'Open this select text %s',
     'contexts' : ['selection'],
     'onclick' : function(info, tab) {
        console.log('Selected link: ' + info.selectionText);
     }
   });
   

Good luck.

Answer 2

Using contextMenu is the one and only way (outside of hacking on the Chromium source), but the API should be graduating from experimental when Google Chrome 6 gets released to the stable channel.