Click event is not getting fired using debugger protocol

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I am using Chrome extensions API to debug a tab and try to perform series of actions on my web app.

To perform click operations using debugger, I am using Input.dispatchMouseEvent method from debugger protocol.

Here's a snippet that does it.

var mouseMoved = {
  type: 'mouseMoved',
  x: result.x,
  y: result.y,
  modifiers: 0,
  button: 'none',
  clickCount: 0
};

var mousePressed = {
  type: 'mousePressed',
  x: result.x,
  y: result.y,
  modifiers: 0,
  button: 'left',
  clickCount: 1
};

var mouseReleased = {
  type: 'mouseReleased',
  x: result.x,
  y: result.y,
  modifiers: 0,
  button: 'left',
  clickCount: 1
};

chrome.debugger.sendCommand(debuggee, 'Input.dispatchMouseEvent', mouseMoved, function(resultMove) {
  if(resultMove.error) {
    console.log('Error!');
    return;
  }
});
chrome.debugger.sendCommand(debuggee, 'Input.dispatchMouseEvent', mousePressed, function(resultPress) {
  if(resultPress.error) {
    console.log('Error!');
    return;
  }
});
chrome.debugger.sendCommand(debuggee, 'Input.dispatchMouseEvent', mouseReleased, function(resultRelease) {
  if(resultRelease.error) {
    console.log('Error!');
    return;
  }
});

When I try to execute this command on the page and track events being fired, I only get 'mousemove', 'mousedown' and 'mouseup' being fired. But 'click' event is not fired.

Am I doing something wrong? How to get debugger to fire 'click' event as well?

Thanks,
Vivek

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