JavaScript functions setTimeout() and setInterval() are sometimes not working

Question

My own Google Chrome extension stops working after some time, because setTimeout() is not working in some cases.

Therefore the background script is not sending a message to the content script after some necessary delay.

I have found this problem by writing many console.log() statements.

As a solution i thought about using setInterval() until the message is sent to the content script:

var timer = setInterval(function() {
  clearInterval(timer);
  // Sending a message to the content script
}, 3000);

My code before, during and after setInterval() is quiet long, so i hope this code snippet is somehow enough.

Does anyone know in which cases these Timeouts or Intervals do not start?

Or are there any similar options i could use?

I have thought about using the Chrome Alarms API instead, but alarms can only be used once every minute and the minimum delay is one minute if i am not mistaken.

Answer 1

I never experienced any issue of setinterval or settimeout stops working. I guess there might be an issue in your code. If you are sure about the bug you should make a demo project and report bug on github.