chrome.offscreen

{
  "name": "My extension",
  ...
  "permissions": [
    "offscreen"
  ],
  ...
}

chrome.offscreen.createDocument({
  url: 'off_screen.html',
  reasons: ['CLIPBOARD'],
  justification: 'reason for needing the document',
});

let creating; // A global promise to avoid concurrency issues
async function setupOffscreenDocument(path) {
  // Check all windows controlled by the service worker to see if one
  // of them is the offscreen document with the given path
  const offscreenUrl = chrome.runtime.getURL(path);
  const existingContexts = await chrome.runtime.getContexts({
    contextTypes: ['OFFSCREEN_DOCUMENT'],
    documentUrls: [offscreenUrl]
  });

  if (existingContexts.length > 0) {
    return;
  }

  // create offscreen document
  if (creating) {
    await creating;
  } else {
    creating = chrome.offscreen.createDocument({
      url: path,
      reasons: ['CLIPBOARD'],
      justification: 'reason for needing the document',
    });
    await creating;
    creating = null;
  }
}

chrome.action.onClicked.addListener(async () => {
  await setupOffscreenDocument('off_screen.html');

  // Send message to offscreen document
  chrome.runtime.sendMessage({
    type: '...',
    target: 'offscreen',
    data: '...'
  });
});

async function hasOffscreenDocument() {
  if ('getContexts' in chrome.runtime) {
    const contexts = await chrome.runtime.getContexts({
      contextTypes: ['OFFSCREEN_DOCUMENT'],
      documentUrls: [OFFSCREEN_DOCUMENT_PATH]
    });
    return Boolean(contexts.length);
  } else {
    const matchedClients = await clients.matchAll();
    return matchedClients.some(client => {
      return client.url.includes(chrome.runtime.id);
    });
  }
}