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in that it is an HTML page that runs in the extension process. |
The difference is that the background page exists |
for the lifetime of your extension, |
-and only one instance of it at a time is active.</p> |
+and only one instance of it at a time is active. |
+</p> |
+<p> |
+In a typical extension with a background page, |
+the UI — |
+toolstrips, page actions, and so on — |
+is implemented with dumb views. |
+When the view needs some state, |
+it requests the state from the background page. |
+When the background page notices a state change, |
+the background page tells the views to update. |
+</p> |
+ |
<h2 id="manifest">Manifest</h2> |
<p> |
Property changes on: chrome/common/extensions/docs/static/background_pages.html |
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+ LF |