I am encountering a strange error that I have not seen before while developing an extension for a client. After completing the extension (debugging,optimization, testing on several computers), the client's partner cannot get the extension to load on his computer. After basic trouble shooting, I have been incrementally sending him larger and larger subsections of the code to see what is preventing the code from executing properly. Initially I sent him basic code to make sure the popup would render with the libraries I am using (bootstrap, listjs, jquery), everything worked fine. Then I sent him code which uses message passing between the popup.js file and the background.js file, to log data to the background page's console. This is not working, and I am not sure why. It has worked fine on every other computer that I have tested with. I will attach the basic code below. I would like help identifying what could be causing the messaging to not work.
manifest.json
{
"name": "Test E",
"version": "1.0",
"description": "Check background console",
"background": {
"page": "background.html"
},
"browser_action": {
"default_icon": {
"19": "images/drop.png"
},
"default_popup": "popup.html"
},
"permissions": [
"activeTab",
"tabs"
],
"manifest_version": 2
}
popup.js
$( document ).ready(function(){
gen_list();
chrome.runtime.sendMessage({x:"work"});
});
function gen_list(){
// this is just code to initialize the list from the list.js library
var options = {valueNames: ['name'],plugins: [ListFuzzySearch()]};
var list1 = new List('hacker-list', options);
list1.add( {name:"second"} );
$( 'body' ).css('background-color',"green");
}
background.html
<html>
<script src="js/bg.js"></script>
</html>
background.js
chrome.runtime.onMessage.addListener(function(m){
console.log(m.x);
});
// this should log "work" to the console, it works perfectly fine on my computer
additional info: He has around 20 extensions loaded in the extension bar, he is running the latest version of chrome and is on osx el capitain.
