Keep state of extension in first tab for all tabs

[Jordan Fitch]

I'm sure this has been asked so if someone can point me in the correct direction.

I have an extension that popups a login page. The user can then login and do what they need to do. However when a new tab is opened it goes back to the login screen on the new tab. Is there a way to keep the state of the first tab amongst all tabs? Or possibly just keep one instance across all tabs. 

Hopefully that makes sense.

Thanks,

[woxxom]

Save the state in storage, read it at the beginning and then show/hide DOM elements accordingly. You can save it both to localStorage for easy synchronous access in the tab and to chrome.storage.local to read it in the background script.