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google-chromegoogle-chrome-extension
user1239714
user1239714

Reputation: 615

Chrome Extension - event page inactive after less than 20 seconds

I am trying to create a feed reader that checks for an updated version of the feed every hour or so.

My problem is that the event page seems to turn inactive after less than 20 seconds.

How do I make it last longer?

Here's some of the important parts of the code:

in manifest.json:

"background": {
    "scripts": ["eventPage.js"],
    "persistent": false
},

and in eventPage.js:

function testFunc () {
    alert("test")
}
setInterval(testFunc, 10 * 1000) // was testing the number of seconds here

What am I doing wrong?

Thank you!

Regards,

John

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2721

Answers (1)

Rob W
Rob W

Reputation: 349062

Using setInterval to periodically run some code works fine on background pages, but not on event pages, because the event page goes inactive when the page is idle for a long while.

The correct way to schedule a periodic task on event pages is to use the chrome.alarms API:

chrome.alarms.onAlarm.addListener(function(alarm) {
    if (alarm.name == 'name-of-alarm') {
        // Do something...
        testFunc();
    }
});

// Create the alarm:
chrome.alarms.create('name-of-alarm', {
    periodInMinutes: 60
});

Upvotes: 7

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