Chrome Extension - Content Security Policy - executing inline code

Question

I am using an external JavaScript lib in my chrome extension. I has inline execution, so I get following kind of error

(The error I get on console)

Answer 1

Copied from my answer to a similar question here. For recent versions of Chrome (46+) the current answer is no longer true. unsafe-inline still has no effect (in both the manifest and in meta header tags), but per the documentation, you can use the technique described here to relax the restriction.

Hash usage for

Result:

I also tested putting the applicable directive in a meta tag instead of the manifest. While the CSP indicated in the console message did include the content of the tag, it would not execute the inline script (in Chrome 53).

new background.html:

Result: