BazQux Reader: open links in background tab
News & Weather
Enables the 'b' keyboard shortcut to open links in the background tab in BazQux Reader
Users
179
Rating
5.0
Reviews
4
7D Growth
-2|-1.11%
Cooling signalNo paid features detectedMedium-risk permissions
Background Tab for NewsBlur
Opens the active item in a background tab when the user presses a customizable hotkeys (default: 'o' and 'v') in NewsBlur.
Users236Current public install base
Rating4.6Store average score
Reviews10Public review volume
Manifest versionV3Extension platform version
7-day growth-24Net users gained this week
7-day growth rate-9.23%Relative weekly velocity
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1 assetsBackground Tab for NewsBlur Media preview
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4.60
Latest
4.60
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2026年7月15日2026年7月21日
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Version0.5.0
ManifestV3
Size45.65KiB
Languages1English
Published
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English
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This extension allows you to open a link in a background tab by pressing a customizable hotkey (default 'o' or 'v'). This feature used to work without an extension, but it broke starting with Chrome 41.
Be sure to reload the NewsBlur page after installing or changing the hotkey(s).
Source code is available at: https://github.com/Lyrrad/NewsBlurBackgroundTab
What's new?
0.5.0:
Migrate to Manifest V3.
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Store average score4.6Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text
Synced text average4.5Average computed only from synced review bodies below
Reviews with text4Synced review bodies
Total ratings / reviews10Chrome Web Store public rating/review count
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Basic daily need!
Good extension, but not perfect. Before this feature was broken in Chrome 41, opening more than one tab in the background would que up the tabs, adding each new tab to the right of the last one. With this extension it opens them up to the left of the last opened tab. Is there are way for you to add an option to open tabs to the right of the previously opened tab?
Works as advertised!
Works precisely as advertised! With Chrome v41's aggressive popup blocker my visits to NewsBlur frequently became annoying. This extension has restored my sanity, and for that I thank you!