I'm authoring an extension that requires centralized UI for various
aspects and features. My initial thought is to put it into the
background page. It's easy enough to call up a tab and set the URL to
the background html page of your extension. The issue in doing that is
that it appears to create a new instance of a background page and
loads that....

Can I view the actual background page the extension is linked to/
communicating with? I know you can use chrome.extension.getViews() to
loop through views for your extension and find the background view,
but how to I send that "view" to a tab, so I can see it? If this is
not possible, which I could understand it might not be since it is, by
design, a BACKGROUND page - then what are my alternatives for
rendering additional UI?

Should I just create a new html page and package it up with my
extension and then just load that into a new tab? It would require
more work getting my background page to communicate with yet ANOTHER
view, but it could work.

Thoughts?

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