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I have a script that looks for a cookie to determine whether a user has an active session for a website. Based on this information, it shows the appropriate popup HTML page. I want this to run every time the extension icon is clicked, but it seems to only run once. I think I may be missing something.

cookieChecker.js

chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(function(tab) {

  chrome.cookies.get({url: 'https://somesite.com', name: 'TOKEN'}, function(cookie) {

  if (cookie) {

   console.log('Cookie', cookie);

   var decoded = jwt_decode(cookie.value);

   var expired = isExpired(decoded);

   if (expired === false) {

    chrome.browserAction.setPopup({popup: 'loggedIn.html'});

      }

   else {

        chrome.browserAction.setPopup({popup: 'loggedOut.html'});

      }

    }

  else {

      chrome.browserAction.setPopup({popup: 'loggedOut.html'});

    }

  })



  function isExpired(token) {

    var date = getExpirationDate(token);

    if (date < (Date.now() / 1000)) {

      console.log(date, Date.now());

      return true;

    }

    return false;

  }



  function getExpirationDate(token){

    if (!token.exp) {

      return null;

    }

    var expDate = token.exp;

    return expDate;

  }

});

manifest.json

{

  "manifest_version": 2,



  "name": "Getting started example",

  "description": "This extension shows a Google Image search result for the current page",

  "version": "1.0",



  "browser_action": {

    "default_icon": "icon.png"

  },

  "permissions": [

"activeTab",

"cookies",

"storage",

"https://ajax.googleapis.com/",

"https://somesite.com"

  ],

  "background": {

    "scripts": ["jwt-decode.min.js","cookieChecker.js"]

  }

}

The event browserAction.onClicked only fires if no popup is defined for the browser action button. Once you set a page for the popup using browserAction.setPopup({popup:... (or if you have a default_popup defined in your manifest.json), the browserAction.onClicked event will not fire for any subsequent user clicks on the browser action button. Instead, when the browser action button is clicked, your popup will be opened.

If you want to return to receiving browserAction.onClicked events, somewhere else in your code (e.g. in the popup's JavaScript), you would need to set the popup to '' with:

chrome.browserAction.setPopup({popup: ''});