Tab Activate
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New tabs open immediately instead of in the background
Users
50K
Rating
4.0
Reviews
278
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Stable signalFree or hybridMedium-risk permissions
Force Background Tab
Force New Tab Running In Background
Users40KCurrent public install base
Rating3.9Store average score
Reviews258Public review volume
Manifest versionV3Extension platform version
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Version2.2.2
ManifestV3
Size666KiB
Languages1English
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Force New Tab Running In Background
!!!Support of all Link/Tab/Flash!!!
Description:
Normally, Each click on a link that wants to open a new tab will ACTIVE THE NEW TAB
Now, After install this extension, the new tab will RUNNING IN BACKGROUND
Feedback: https://github.com/monque/ChromeExtension-ForceBackgroundTab/issues
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Store average score3.9Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text
Synced text average3.6Average computed only from synced review bodies below
Reviews with text172Synced review bodies
Total ratings / reviews258Chrome Web Store public rating/review count
Store average score: 3.9. 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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Opens each link in anywhere between 1 and 3 new tabs. All are in background though, so have a second star :) Also, would be nice to have ability to customise/filter which tabs open (or which behaviour causes them to open) background, which open foreground.
works perfectly! thank you!
I agree with everyone else, I love this extension but I really would prefer that new blank tabs open in the foreground. Update: And the dev fixed it promptly... nice.
Like the comments below, I think it used to be better with foreground tabs opened through ctrl+t.
Great software. Dev responsive to user requests. Works great as advertised.
+1 on Mr. Cangucu's review, love this app but I want NEW TABs to open in FOREGROUND. Why did you switch this behavior?
It was very good, but with the new Chrome version, it also forces the new tab that I opened (with shift+t) to background. Those I want to open in foreground.
What a life saver!! Agree with ""Feedly Background Tab" doesn't work right. The blinking is noticeable, but better than not having the tab open in the background at all."
I use this to get new tabs from Feedly to appear in the background, since "Feedly Background Tab" doesn't work right. The blinking is noticeable, but better than not having the tab open in the background at all. That said, an option to have the extension only activate on certain domains would be very welcome. EDIT: As of late 2019, using this with "New Tab Redirect" and enabling "Always update tab, not redirect" causes the current tab to be selected when opening a new tab manually. This means that when that new tab is closed, so is the current one. This is new behavior, presumably caused by a recent change to Chrome, as another extension with functionality similar to "Force Background Tab" causes the same issue. Disabling "Always update tab" fixes this issue, but that means that focus remains on the current tab when opening a new one manually, which is not what I want.
very nice tool,but every time I open the tab.It always blink .