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I am developing a chrome extension. I am able to pass a message from background page to popup extension when a context menu is clicked if i open the popup page with “Inspect pop-up” selection. Because it stays open in this way.
But if I click the context menu when the popup page is not opened, no message received by it.
Do you have any suggestions to open popup automatically, make it stay open or send message to it when even if it is not active.
There is no way to pragmatically open a popup window. Popup windows are only active when the popup is open which is why you cant send messages to it when it is closed.
You could either queue messages in the background page and have them retrieved the next time the popup window is opened. Or depending on the functionality you might look into using HTML5 desktop notifications instead.