title: Invisible tabs in chrome extension
body: <p>I basically want to automate a website by using a Chrome extension. But this website has extremely much client-side code, so it's really hard to find out which request I need to make in order to get the needed information.</p>
  
  <p>The easiest way I can think of would be to use a content script to enter text in input elements and click buttons, like this (with jQuery in this case):</p>
  
  <pre><code>$.ready(function(){
    $("#input").val("foo");
    $("#submit").click();
  });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Quite similar to this question: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24121939/injecting-input-into-a-tab-opened-by-a-chrome-extension">Injecting input into a tab opened by a Chrome Extension</a>, but the interaction with that website should not be visible.</p>
  
  <p>So: Can I open pages in chrome from an extension, that are not visible to the user and use them to interact with websites?</p>