How Can A Google Chrome Extension Exit Its Own Background Process?

My goal is very simple: when the user installs the extension, open the options page. The only way I know how to do that is to create a background page, and on that page check for l

Solution 1:

With transient background pages, the background page will exit automatically once all code that it's running finishes. This feature will be in a future Chrome release, but since it's still under active development, there isn't documentation for it yet.