Keep Popup Open when Opening a new Page

Question

I have the following code to introduce my Chrome Extension.

// detect if this is the first time running
var first_run = false;
if (!localStorage[\'ran_before\'])         


        

Answer 1

While Marc Guiselin's answer is excellent, it may be useful to know how to open a tab without closing a popup.

You could open the tab in the background, that way it won't close your popup.

chrome.tabs.create({
  url: chrome.runtime.getURL("intro/index.html"),
  active: false
});

In general, you should avoid using window.open in extensions and use chrome.tabs and chrome.windows API instead.