How to keep the content script alive in a tab even if user navigates to another page in chrome extension?

[Pankaj Shinde]

Problem :
Whenever I click the 'record' button, it successfully captures both events on the active tab (the tab from which I had my last focus). But, when I click on any hyperlink on the page, then the page navigates to another page on the same tab. I am then not able to detect any of the events on the new page, even though they are in the same tab.

How can I keep the myScript (contentScript) alive after user navigates to other link in same chrome tab. I am stuck at this stage really bad.

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[Antony Sargent]

Content scripts always run in an isolated world js context for a frame, and in general when a tab navigates normally, eg by clicking on an anchor tag, the frame gets torn down and replaced by a new one. So there is no way to keep a content script's js context alive. The solution to this is to use chrome.storage (https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/storage) or messaging back to your event page, to keep track of any state that you need to persist beyond the navigation.

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