Google Chrome Extension Getting Started Tutorial not working

Question

I'm trying to learn about google chrome extensions so from this question I went to this tutorial.

I followed the instructions but both the change of the page's color when clicking the button and the options page don't work.

To make sure I didn't missed anything I downloaded the completed extension but I got the same result.

Why does it not change the page's color when I click the button on the popup and when I go to the extension's options the page is blank? Is the tutorial obsolete/has something wrong in the code that wasn't updated? Can it be fixed/how?

The only related questions I have seen seem to be old when the example extension/tutorial was different.

Answer 1

This bug is tracked here: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=827804

It seems that the scripts have some errors. I have uploaded fixed scripts to the bugtracker. You can try them.