“Cannot read property of undefined” when using chrome.tabs or other chrome API in content script

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As content script has its own limitations,

chrome.tabs is only available in background scripts and popup scripts.

If you wanna to use chrome.tabs then pass message from content_script to background script and play with chrome.tabs.

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