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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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User Growth Over Time

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4.15
Latest
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30-day growthDeclining
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Version0.0.7
ManifestV3
Size10.44KiB
Languages1English
Published
Store updated
Last crawled
English
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

Reviews

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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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Rajesh Mani2017年2月1日
5

Saved the day !!!

Language en
0 helpful · 1 not helpful
E. O.2016年12月20日
2

Why 30 kB-extension takes 15 MB RAM?

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Luc2016年7月6日
5

you saved my life. without this app, I would have been using firefox!!

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Scott Harris2016年6月24日
1

Doesn't work, even followed the instructions

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
6447686C49474E686132556761584D6759534273615755752015年11月11日
5

I tip my hat to you sir

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Łukasz Gruszka2015年8月10日
5

Works great, thanks!

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Wami Duku2015年6月28日
3

Doesn't work. Go to options and change the regular expression to https://www\.google\.\w+?/search\?q=.*?&aqs=chrome.*?&sourceid=chrome.* to fix it.

Language en
2 helpful · 1 not helpful
Uahhk Laksng2014年9月29日
2

Thanks for the effort, but the white flicker makes it unusable for me. I feel like I'm chased by paparazzi. There's another extension for doing a background search which doesn't have that problem. It adds a new button to your context menu which will open a standard google search in a background tab without any annoyances. Not gonna post the name in the review of your extension, but it's easy to find.

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3 helpful · 5 not helpful
Eddy2014年6月13日
5

Didn't work at first. Went to the options screen and followed the instructions. Works great, even after restarting Chrome. Yes, there is a momentary flicker, but that's better than having to use the Cmd/Ctrl key every time. Great extension!

Language en
5 helpful · 1 not helpful
Eric Carlsen2013年10月22日
3

I don't know of anything better but it seems like the fact that it stops working is built into its design. Going to the options basically tells you how to get it working again. Wish I could set and forget.

Language en