simulate inactivity to test service worker?

[Tyler Crews]

I'm experiencing a bug where when my extension goes inactive I think it's not recalling the correct values from sync storage.

Is there an easy way to test how your extension behaves when it goes inactive? I've been trying to just wait it out until it goes inactive and that's obviously too time consuming to be effective.

Thanks,

Tyler

[wOxxOm]

You can kill the background script (the service worker) in Chrome's built-in Task manager, invoked via Shift-Esc.

Alternatively, open any page of your extension, open devtools, switch to the Application tab, click "Service worker" in the left pane, which will show a UI where you can start/stop/update the service worker.

[Tyler Crews]

that's perfect, thanks!