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Search in background tab

Opens the "Search google for" search in a background tab.

Users627Current public install base
Rating4.2Store average score
Reviews67Public review volume
Manifest versionV3Extension platform version
7-day growth--Net users gained this week
7-day growth rate--Relative weekly velocity
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30-day growthDeclining
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Version0.0.7
ManifestV3
Size10.44KiB
Languages1English
Published
Store updated
Last crawled
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Overview

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This extension makes the new tab, that are opened by "Search google for" , open in the background instead of the foreground.

It should now work for latest versions of Chrome.

### Important ###

If it doesn't work. Go to the options page and follow the instructions. Make sure you have updated to version 0.0.7.

You find the options page at this url:

chrome-extension://fikfhablannhlgejpiklhbkonjkakodf/options.html

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Store average score4.2Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text
Synced text average3.8Average computed only from synced review bodies below
Reviews with text28Synced review bodies
Total ratings / reviews67Chrome Web Store public rating/review count

Store average score: 4.2. The bars below are calculated from synced review text only, so they may be empty for extensions that have public ratings but no synced comments yet.

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David Haddad2024年8月11日
5

LOVE this extension, would have gladly "bought a coffee" for this developer if I saw such an option. My only suggestion is I am not sure why, at least as far as I can see, there is not a setting from within the extension to get to the extension settings. However you probably won't need to access them.

Version 0.0.7Language en
C W2024年4月4日
5

Found this as I was searching for a replacement for a prior extension that will die when Manifest v.3 is mandated, works perfectly and if for whatever reason you've altered how the search expression is relayed to Google this extension will easily handle that.

Version 0.0.7Language en
Bryan Sullivan2024年3月5日
5

Works great on Chrome 122 with extension version 0.0.7. Follow the directions on the extension's options page.

Version 0.0.7Language en
Graeme Donaldson2022年2月15日
1

It doesn't seem to work with modern versions of Chrome, even when following the instructions on how to fix the regex.

Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Rune Hansen Duus2019年12月31日
2

Sadly does not work anymore. Using v0.0.6 and tried the "auto setup" on the options page multiple times.

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
s0ul2019年10月9日
4

Somehow it doesn't work anymore...

Language en
5 helpful · 0 not helpful
Maheśvara Ishaya2018年3月28日
5

Works flawlessly (after setup). Go into the "Options" menu, highlight the text in the box, right click and perform the Google search. That's it!

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Luke Formosa2017年8月31日
5

Worked perfectly. I just had to right-click the option in the top right of the screen, go to the options page and follow the instructions there to get it to work.

Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Digital CHET2017年8月10日
5

It's incredible that we have to rely on a third-party extension, but I'm grateful that there are users out there that share a modicum of logical reasoning and the have the ability to fix these issues. How this is yet not a default feature of the browser is beyond me. Extension Works exactly as expected after updating the info in the Options. Many thanks

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
banana2017年2月11日
1

not working.

Language en