Does Google Chrome Extensions support multithreaded programming?

Question

Say, I want to open up a new thread each time a button is clicked in my extension, how can I do that?

I know that the various tabs are handled by a chrome task manager which treats each tab as a parallel process. Therefore, if the answer to my question is no, can we somehow exploit this task manager to have the same effect? Perhaps using some hidden tabs?

Answer 1

This can be achieved with Web Workers: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/workers/basics/