Suppose the user has the following text written in the chrome address bar: "google this"
I need my chrome extension command to hit the send button or enter for this text so that a search query can be initiated. Then I read in the onBeforeRequest listener to add some other parameters to the search and redirect to a new URL.
It appears that it's not possible to read and modify the address bar text directly, which is why I resorted to this indirect way.
My question is: how do I initiate the search so that user can press my command shortcut to search instead of the 'Enter' button?