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I am developing Google Chrome extension. Each time my JavaScript source changes, I find myself having to click "load unpacked extension" again to have the changes take effect.
Reloading the extension at each iteration is very tedious. Can it be avoided?
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Go to chrome web store. Type Stop AutoRefresh into the search box at top left. Press Enter and look at the auto refresh blocker extension displayed in the right-hand pane. Click on the Add to Chrome button.
Click the Start button, type “internet options” and select Internet Options in the search results. In the Internet Properties window, click “Custom tab -> Custom level,” then in the Security Settings window, scroll down until you find “Allow META REFRESH.” Disable this option and click OK.
By default, if it's using a lot of memory, Chrome purges the contents of some background tabs from RAM to conserve system resources. When you click back onto those tabs, the browser has to reload them because they have been erased from memory.
Depends on the asset, lets review:
Asset ----------------------------------------- Action needed
popup.html HTML -------------------------- Refresh browser page
popup.html JS ------------------------------- Refresh browser page
contentscript via manifest ----------------- Reload extension
contentscript via executeScript (code) - location.reload(true) on background page
contentscript via executeScript (file) ---- Refresh browser page
background.html HTML ------------------- location.reload(true) on background page
background.html JS ------------------------ location.reload(true) on background page
For more information on how to do the location.reload(true) see the page on debugging
The content script requiring a plugin reload has been brought up recently and acknowledged by the chromium team:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=104610
Consider using programmatic injection (contentscript via executeScript (file)) to avoid having to reload the plugin for content script updates.
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