onclick or inline script isn’t working in extension

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Chrome Extensions don’t allow you to have inline JavaScript (documentation).
The same goes for Firefox WebExtensions (documentation).

You are going to have to do something similar to this:

Assign an ID to the link (<a onClick=hellYeah("xxx")> becomes <a id="link">), and use addEventListener to bind the event. Put the following in your popup.js file:

document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() {
    var link = document.getElementById('link');
    // onClick's logic below:
    link.addEventListener('click', function() {
        hellYeah('xxx');
    });
});

popup.js should be loaded as a separate script file:

<script src="popup.js"></script>

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