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[Maciej Jałocha (PL-tier)]

Hi,

I'm wondering if chrome.storage is in many case superior way for communication between parts of extensions (except for offscreen). When I compare it with the one-time requests within extension messaging, the only downsides I'm seeing are a) limits local storage size b) there is no handy sendResponse. For long-lived connections 
But the big benefit, often desirable, is that this method also "automatically" safely saves a message/information.

Is it indeed the case?

[akalias]

You do get notifications in the various components, so it can indeed be useful - though I've not ever been tempted to try and use it solely