[Q/A] onInstalled Event Not Triggering

[viclai]

What happened?

Using Plasmo, I built a Chrome extension with a custom new-tab page. When I forced/simulated an update by uploading an unpacked extension with a newer version but the same ID as the already-installed extension version, I found that my extension was not firing the update event if I have at least one new-tab page open prior to the update. Specifically, the onInstalled event was not firing with update as reason.

I created the following new Plasmo project just to demonstrate this issue.

https://github.com/viclai/plasmo_french_fries

I discovered other similar scenarios in which the update event wasn't firing as I'd expect, but this is what I can show with a bare-bones sample. Please let me know if there's any workaround! 🙏

Version

Latest

What OS are you seeing the problem on?

MacOSX, Linux

What browsers are you seeing the problem on?

Chrome, Microsoft Edge

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[louisgv]

I think this is unrelated to Plasmo framework/API - more of a chrome extension issue - let's move it to a discussino.

[viclai]

Were you able to reproduce what I detailed in the repository that I linked? It seems to be related to bundling if it behaves differently with and without the tag specified.

[louisgv]

onInstalled event triggers only when the extension was installed first time OR if it was refreshed manually on extension dashboard I think.

[viclai]

The onInstalled event can trigger with one of many different values for reason.

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/runtime/#type-OnInstalledReason

[viclai]

@louisgv, I built the same functionality in an extension using Vanilla JavaScript/HTML, and the update event does trigger. Try installing it from the following repository.

https://github.com/viclai/vanilla_french_fries