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Why is chrome.tabs.onUpdated.addListener not firing?

I am trying to listen to updates to a tab's URL in a chrome extension. The documentation for chrome.tabs.onUpdated.addListener explains that updates to attributes like url will trigger the listener, but I am only seeing updates for the loading status or an empty changeInfo object.

background.js

chrome.tabs.onUpdated.addListener((tabId, changeInfo, tab)=>{
    console.log("change info", changeInfo);
});

What I see in the console when I navigate to new URLs, either via the search bar or clicking on links:

change info {status: 'loading'}
change info {}
change info {}
change info {status: 'complete'}

How could a listener be triggered on an empty changeInfo object? and why do none of the updates include url changes? What am I doing wrong here? (this is not limited to chrome, reproduced in safari as well).

about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza
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