I am working on my first chrome extension.
I followed this article http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/options.html to base my options page off of. So when I r
"manifest_version": 2 forbids embedded scripts. Move all of the JavaScript to options.js and load it that way.
"manifest_version": 2
options.js
Adding "storage" permission in manifest.json helps:
... "permissions": [ "storage" ]