avoid chrome popup extension to close

Question

Is there a function that allow me to select text when the extension stays open. Normally when I Use the extension popup and I Click outside the extension the extension close

Answer 1

I encountered the same problem and I've thought of a possible solution (though not tested it):

Use your background.html to store the content of the popup action and upon loading the popup, you fetch the content via the default messaging for chrome extensions.

When doing all kinds of other stuff, like XHR's or something, I think you should do that in background.html too, so the requests won't abort if you close and you can do something with the result. Then when a user re-opens the popup, he'll see the result of his previous action instead of the default screen.

Anyone tried something like did already?