title: Google Chrome Extension Running Twice
body: <p>I am working on an extension for Google Chrome and I realized that my extension will run twice if I include the following in the manifest:  </p>
  
  <pre><code>"background":{"page": "popup.html","persistent": true},
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However I need the .html file to run in the background in order to load data, if anymore information is required please do let me know.</p>
  
  <p>Edit 1: I have only added the following scripts in HTML, if that gives a clue.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="popup.css"&gt;
      &lt;script src="jquery-3.2.1.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
      &lt;script src="popup.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thank you!</p>