Google Chrome Extension for Transparent Tabs or Windows

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SycoPrime picture SycoPrime · Aug 24, 2012 · Viewed 9.9k times · Source

Is it possible to create a browser extension that would allow page-controlled window opacity? Not so that various elements on the page are of a given opacity, but to allow one to see other windows (like the desktop) behind the browser page.

Thank you.

Answer

Greg Inozemtsev picture Greg Inozemtsev · Aug 25, 2012

No, this is not possible in an extension. Such transparency would be handled at the window manager level, and would require platform-specific code. This means that either Chrome would have to add this feature and expose it as an extension API (currently no such feature exists), or you would have to write a plugin.

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