Popup menu is not opened - google-chrome-extension

I got the following files in my Chrome extension project.
|--dist
|--background.js
|--content.js
|--popup.js
|--popup.html
|--manifest.json
|--images
|--get_started16.png
|--get_started32.png
|--get_started48.png
|--get_started128.png
background.js, content.js and popup.js only contains console.log('hello').
manifest.json
{
"name": "Test",
"version": "1.0",
"description": "test",
"manifest_version": 2,
"permissions": ["activeTab", "declarativeContent", "storage"],
"background": {
"scripts": ["background.js"],
"persistent": false
},
"page_action": {
"default_popup": "popup.html",
"default_icon": {
"16": "images/get_started16.png",
"32": "images/get_started32.png",
"48": "images/get_started48.png",
"128": "images/get_started128.png"
}
},
"content_scripts": [
{
"matches": ["<all_urls>"],
"js": ["content.js"]
}
]
}
popup.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
button {
height: 30px;
width: 30px;
outline: none;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello world</h1>
<script src="popup.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
No errors loading the files (loading the extension as unpacked files). When the extension icon is clicked it opens the default menu with
Remove from home
Hide in chrome menu
Manage extensions
Inspect popup
etc...not the popup.html, However the content script and background script logging hello to their consoles. Clicking on Inspect popup does nothing.
I'm using (on Arch linux),
Chrome: Version 75.0.3770.100 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Chromium: Version 75.0.3770.100 (Official Build) Arch Linux (64-bit)
Popup is not working in both browsers. I tried changing file permissions as below
chmod -R 777 dist/
I loaded getting started tutorial project files. The popup in that is working fine. What as I missing here?

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