Chrome Extension Manifest 'Matches'
Answer : You need to surround the value of the content_scripts field in square brackets: "content_scripts": [ { "matches": ["http://*"], "js": ["scripts.js"] } ] (see the Chrome Docs for more info) Incidentally, using http://*/* would be a better match for all urls (see the docs), adding https://*/* if you also need to match those as well. Edit: Following your edit, the error you are getting is because of the match pattern being incorrect. If you want to match every URL, then Google has a special pattern just for this purpose: <all_urls> Sample usage: "matches": ["<all_urls>"], See this page for more info: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/match_patterns Any match pattern should be of the following structure [scheme] :// [host][path] scheme is '*' | 'http' | 'https' | 'file' | 'ftp' host is ' ' | ' .' (any char...