Google Chrome Extension Running Twice

Question

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:

"background":{"page": "popup.html","persistent": true},

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.

Edit 1: I have only added the following scripts in HTML, if that gives a clue.

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="popup.css">
    <script src="jquery-3.2.1.js"></script>
    <script src="popup.js"></script>

Thank you!

Answer 1

In the popup.html you might have included jquery.min.js twice. This will result running all $(document).ready() events twice