Inactive service workers in extension inspect views

[sportsmen]

sportsmen last edited by leocg

Hello

I had an extension working fine for the last year or so. Suddenly It would not work and when I looked at it I see

On chrome it is working

Thanks for the help!

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

What extension? Did the author of the extension update it to use Manifest V3 recently?

Did you try uninstalling and reinstalling the extension?

[sportsmen]

sportsmen @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chessvisionai-chess-posit/johejpedmdkeiffkdaodgoipdjodhlld

They did do an upgrade recently. I did try to install and reinstall, but I am still having this issue.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @sportsmen last edited by

@sportsmen Yes. That extension has "manifest_version": 3, in its manifest.json file. The reason I asked is that there are/were some Chromium issues with inactive server workers. Something about service workers can't be persistent anymore in V3. The extension has to save state and start the service worker back up when needed and load the state back in. I guess some extension authors haven't figured that out yet.

Are you using Opera GX or regular Opera? The worker goes inactive for me in both. I also tested in Chrome and it goes inactive after a bit too. So, it might just be a bug with the extension.

As for the behavior of the extension itself, I don't know how to use it to test that.