1<div id="pageData-name" class="pageData">chrome.* APIs</div> 2<div id="pageData-showTOC" class="pageData">true</div> 3 4<p> 5Google Chrome provides APIs such as 6<code>chrome.bookmarks</code> and <code>chrome.tab</code> 7so that extensions can interact with the browser. 8</p> 9 10<h2 id="supported">Supported APIs</h2> 11 12<p> 13Here are the supported chrome.* APIs: 14</p> 15 16<ul> 17 <li jsselect="stableAPIs();"><a jsvalues=".href: $this + '.html'" jscontent="$this" href="bookmarks.html" js>bookmarks</a></li> 18</ul> 19 20<h2 id="experimental">Experimental APIs</h2> 21 22<p> 23Google Chrome also has 24<a href="experimental.html">experimental APIs</a>, 25some of which will become supported APIs 26in future releases of Chrome. 27</p> 28 29<h2 id="conventions">API conventions</h2> 30 31<p> 32Unless the doc says otherwise, 33methods in the chrome.* APIs are <b>asynchronous</b>: 34they return immediately, 35without waiting for the operation to finish. 36If you need to know the outcome of an operation, 37then you pass a callback function into the method. 38For more information, watch this video: 39</p> 40 41<p> 42<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bmxr75CV36A?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> 43</p> 44