{
  "manifest_version": 2,

  "name": "WikiMapper",
  "description": "WikiMapper - Track and graph your adventures down the Wikipedia rabbit hole.",
  "version": "2.0.3",
  "icons": {
    "19": "resources/wikimapper-19.png",
    "38": "resources/wikimapper-38.png",
    "48": "resources/wikimapper-48.png",
    "128": "resources/wikimapper-128.png"
  },
  "author": "Patrick McCarthy",
  "homepage_url": "http://www.github.com/ptmccarthy/wikimapper",

  "background": {
    "scripts": ["background.js"],
    "persistent": false
  },

  "permissions": [
    "tabs",
    "storage",
    "webNavigation"
  ],

  "browser_action": {
    "default_title": "WikiMapper",
    "default_icon": "resources/wikimapper-38.png"
  }
}

{
  "manifest_version": 2,

  "name": "WikiMapper",
  "description": "WikiMapper - Track and graph your adventures down the Wikipedia rabbit hole.",
  "version": "2.0.3",
  "icons": {
    "19": "resources/wikimapper-19.png",
    "38": "resources/wikimapper-38.png",
    "48": "resources/wikimapper-48.png",
    "128": "resources/wikimapper-128.png"
  },
  "author": "Patrick McCarthy",
  "homepage_url": "http://www.github.com/ptmccarthy/wikimapper",

  "background": {
    "scripts": ["background.js"],
    "persistent": true
  },

  "permissions": [
    "tabs",
    "storage",
    "webNavigation"
  ],

  "browser_action": {
    "default_title": "WikiMapper",
    "default_icon": "resources/wikimapper-38.png"
  }
}

Revert change to non-persistent background task
Revert change to non-persistent background task

My suspicion is that unload the background task from memory is causing
continuity detection problems.
