title: Open new tab in Chrome extensions
body: <p>I'm trying to write a simple google extension that will upon clicking "ctrl+alt+x" search for the selected text in google.</p>
  
  <p>This is my mainfest:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{
    "name": "A jQuery Chrome extension",
    "version": "0.1",
    "description": "Use jQuery to build Chrome extensions",
    "content_scripts": [
      {
          "matches" : ["http://*/*"],
        "js": ["jquery.js", "jquery.hotkeys.js", "content.js"]
      }
    ],
    "background_page": "background.html",
    "permissions": [
      "tabs"
    ]
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And this is my content.js:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$(document).bind('keydown', 'alt+ctrl+x', function() {
  
      var selectedText = window.getSelection().toString();
  
      if (selectedText)
      {
          var googleQuery = "http://www.google.com/search?q=" + selectedText;
          alert(googleQuery);
          chrome.tabs.create({"url" : googleQuery});  
          alert(googleQuery);
      }
  });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The code works until the line for opening a new tab (the first alert pops up but not the second). I just can't seem to get it working. What am I missing?</p>