Yeah this is why I need to open the port to the background and do fetches from there. It's still crazy powerful. My claim to fame was a SEO extension that was calling random websites and toolbars unpublished json API's with 100k active users. It would basically overload their api with traffic overnight without any toolbar installs because I was mimicking how their extensions make their API calls. It also injected itself on every page so it was running on bank pages and stuff. I didnt keep it updated and it was removed when they went to manifest v3