sendMessage not received by options page onMessage

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Created Nov ’20

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I have ported a Chrome FireFox extension.
One of the things that does not work is receiving message from background to a options page (safari-web-extension://<id>/page.html)

I dont get a error message or any details back from the promise.
Any idea where this goes wrong?

Background:

Code Block browser.tabs.sendMessage(tab.id, { message });

Options page:

Code Block browser.runtime.onMessage.addListener(message => {
		console.log(message);
});

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Juraj_M OP

Mar ’21

Hello @arnoudkooi,
Did you managed to find a solution for this?
I'm trying to solve this for a whole day now. When I send a message with browser.tabs.sendMessage to a tab that I've created it won't receive it at all. No matter if I send it from a different tab or from a background script. It will receive messages send through the browser.runtime.sendMessage though.

It feels impossible. I've tried also chrome namespace but with the same results.
Is everyone else using browser.tabs.connect API?

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