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by dotproto 1381 days ago
Hi, Simeon from the Chrome Extensions team here. Clipboard access is one of the browser capabilities that currently requires a document to use. We're planning to address this use case (and others that require DOM) by introducing a new capability called offscreen documents[1].

In short, an offscreen document is a temporary headless page that is instantiated for a given reason that requires DOM access. It is not meant as a long-lived background context.

[1]: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=133938...