chrome plugin creates two concurrent timers

[reece]

Problem: When using the chrome timer plugin, I often end up with two timers running concurrently, as depicted below. When eventually stopping the timer and logging the time, I invariably get an error that occasionally results in the loss of the session.

I am unsure exactly how to reproduce this problem, but the screenshot scenarios was roughly this:

• Opened freshbooks in a tab. It sat overnight.
• This morning, I started a timer with the plugin. I entered client and project. I also changed the start time to reflect that I forgot to start it when I started work.
• I switched to the FB tab and saw the timers as shown.

Similar situations occur roughly 1/4 of the times that I use the plugin.

[reece]

After submitting this issue, I clicked pause in the FB tab (not plugin). This caused the plugin timer to stop and disappear, with client, project, service and notes lost.

[reece]

One more thing, I do occasionally get

This bug is easily reproduced if you open fb, then try various combinations of starting a timer with the plugin while on the fb tab or while in another tab. As far as I can tell, the main issue is that the popup that appears on the fb tab doesn't reflect the actual state of the plugin timer, so fouls up that state when you try to log or discard the time. That's a complete guess.