How to bring tab to front using Firefox WebExtensions API

Question

I'm developing a Firefox WebExtension (A new technology of Firefox Add-on, in order to make Chrome extensions compatible with Firefox).

Now I need to bring a specific tab to front by tab id.

I tried chrome.tabs.update(this.id, { selected: true }, callback);. This works for Chrome, but Firefox doesn't support selected property (And doesn't support highlighted either).

Does anybody know how to do this?

Document of chrome.tabs.update. No other property seems the one I need.

Answer 1

You are looking for the active property for tabs.update(). This also works in Chrome.

You should use:

chrome.tabs.update(this.id, { active: true }, callback);

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