Chrome Content Scripts not loading JS

Question

I'm trying to work on a Chrome browser extension which does fun things on a contextmenu. The problem is, I can't get the JS files to load within the manifest.json content_scripts.

I don't receive an error, the files simply do not load.

The scripts are good, if I put them in my background page, they fire fine through that background page. The downside of that is it's restricted to only the background page.

{
"name": "Mini",
"description": "Mini",      
"permissions": ["contextMenus","management","contentSettings","tabs","http://*/*","https://*/*","editable"],
"version": "0.1",
"manifest_version": 1,
"background_page": "mini.html",
"icons" : {"16" : "mini.png"},
"contexts" : ["link","tab","page"],
"content_scripts": [{"matches":["<all_urls>"],"js":["jquery172min.js","mini.js"]}]
}

I've tried all forms of matches, including "http://\*/\*", "https://\*/\*", "\*://\*/\*"

I've tried whitespaces, no whitespaces. I'm drawing a blank here.

Any help would be appreciated.

$(document).ready(function () {

alert("page is ready");
},true);    

My apologies for that. This is a copy of the javascript/Jquery I'm using to test whether the extension has loaded or not. It's just a simple alert.

Answer 1

Content scripts cannot use the chrome.contextMenus API (in fact, these can only use some of the chrome.extension methods).

It's possible to apply match patterns to individual menu items, via chrome.contextMenus.create({title: 'Test', documentUrlPatterns: 'http://*/*'});.
Created menu items can also be modified (chrome.contextMenus.update) and removed (chrome.contextMenus.remove).

To communicate between a Content script and the background page, see Message passing.