damage92/Slim-Scrollbar — Issue #3: Apply preference changes immediately through messaging
Author: zcode
Created: 2011-10-30 13:45:32+00:00
State: open

Instead of asking the user to reload, you could postMessage to the background process. Who in turn could broadcastMessage to all injected scripts that they either need to apply new preferences or alternately reload.

See [messaging in Opera extensions](http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/opera-extensions-messaging/) and the simple implementation used in [my extension.](https://github.com/zcode/webm-plus/)