How do I auto-reload a Chrome extension I'm developing?

Posted by Andrey Fedorov on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Andrey Fedorov
Published on 2010-06-03T04:06:34Z Indexed on 2010/06/03 4:14 UTC
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I'd like for my chrome extension to reload every time I save a file in the extension folder, without having to explicitly click "reload" in chrome://extensions/. Is this possible?

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