The popup should not persist like the background page - think of it like a new tab that is closed when the popup is not being shown. Are you seeing that the number of active views shown on the chrome://extensions page keeps increasing the more times you hit the browser action?
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 6:20 AM, JarekP <ja...@pendowski.com> wrote: > I've made an extension that works with many pages by modifying them. I > decided that it should have preferences so that it could work only on > domains at which I want them to work. I've built that configuration > panel into browser_action popup page. To save settings I use > localStorage which as it turns out is separate for popup and > content_script - to make settings accessible to content_script which > is executed on every page I've established communication between popup > page and content_script by using chrome.extension.onRequest event on > popup page and chrome.extension.sendRequest on content_script. > > It's all working fine but the problem is that each time I click on my > extension icon and the popup shows up I get new active view in > chrome://extensions. > I don't know if it's a bug or it's my fault somehow. The side effect > which I found also is that every time the content_script is executed > it sends request to every active view and therefore is executed > multiple times. > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Chromium-extensions" group. > To post to this group, send email to chromium-extensi...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > chromium-extensions+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<chromium-extensions%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-extensions" group. To post to this group, send email to chromium-extensi...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to chromium-extensions+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en.
