Kerrick Long

> track the lifetime of the tab I **really** wish the Chrome extension APIs would give a `parent` item in [the `tab` object](http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/tabs.html#type-Tab) when you listen for [`chrome.tabs.onCreated`](http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/tabs.html#event-onCreated) > though...

Well heck, that’s awesome! If this thread was a TV show people would think I’m an audience plant. I’ll give it a try—I’m not afraid of using & pinning pre-release...

@stefanpenner Did this library ever get deprecated? Did we ever move to a `fetch` polyfill? Just curious how the state of things is in 2017.

In the mean time, is there a workaround to get this kind of overloading functionality without triggering this bug?

That's very exciting, thank you!!