title: Chrome Extension popup.html disappears when clicking on the page
body: <p>I am new to Chrome Extension. I have a popup.html that collects data and displays when mouse over on the current open page/tab. I also send data to popup.html on click on the current open page/tab. </p>
  
  <p>The problem is when i click on the page data gets passed to the popup.html but popup.html disappears/closes. When i click on the extension again the data persists since i am persisting the data on a background page.</p>
  
  <p>How do i avoid popup.html not to close/disappear on click on current open page/tab. </p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance</p>