Extensions development: How to create a new a tab and focus on it?

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Hello!

How to open a new tab from a popup window and then focus on that one, so the content script could inject and exchange messages with background script?

Recently, a crash with opening link in the popup was fixed, however it seems that content script is not injected into the opened window from the popup link.
I've tried several solutions:

• Prevent default link opening and use chrome.tabs.create({ url: 'desired url', active: true }); instead. It opens a new tab but doesn't focus on it.
• Initially open a popup with chrome.tabs.create, so after that links will be opened in a new a tab and focused, but an extension also need to get a current opened tab link on button tapping in popup, because currently opened tab is popup window it will get popup link which not what we want.

Extension I'm working on: SyncWatch