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Google Chrome provides APIs such as
<code>chrome.bookmarks</code> and <code>chrome.tab</code>
so that extensions can interact with the browser.
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<h2 id="supported">Supported APIs</h2>

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Here are the supported chrome.* APIs:
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<h2 id="experimental">Experimental APIs</h2>

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Google Chrome also has
<a href="experimental.html">experimental APIs</a>,
some of which will become supported APIs
in future releases of Chrome.
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<h2 id="conventions">API conventions</h2>

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Unless the doc says otherwise,
methods in the chrome.* APIs are <b>asynchronous</b>:
they return immediately,
without waiting for the operation to finish.
If you need to know the outcome of an operation,
then you pass a callback function into the method.
For more information, watch this video:
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