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Tab Activate

New tabs open immediately instead of in the background

Users50KCurrent public install base
Rating4.0Store average score
Reviews278Public review volume
Manifest versionV3Extension platform version
7-day growth0Net users gained this week
7-day growth rate0%Relative weekly velocity
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Version3.2.1
ManifestV3
Size6.14KiB
Languages1English (United States)
Published
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Last crawled
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Concerns Regarding Required Permissions

Please read the detailed description of required permissions (below) and why they are necessary. Without them, Tab Activate could not work as described. Absolutely no data is changed or collected.

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Description

When you open a link in a new tab, Chrome opens the new tab in the background and provides no option to switch to it immediately.

With Tab Activate, new tabs open immediately instead of in the background.

Reviews

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Store average score4.0Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text
Synced text average3.8Average computed only from synced review bodies below
Reviews with text175Synced review bodies
Total ratings / reviews278Chrome Web Store public rating/review count

Store average score: 4.0. 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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Colin Brown2016年8月10日
5

This should be the default behaviour.

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
迦百农2016年8月9日
5

不错,很好用。被国内的浏览器带坏了,没有这个功能不舒服

Language zh
21 helpful · 2 not helpful
chad tunis2016年8月4日
5

This was just recommended by David Pogue (remember him from the NYTimes?) He all but dies at Yahoo! Great extension!

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Shay Dvir2016年7月26日
5

מעולה. עושה את העבודה. תודה!

Language iw
Shaun Hervey2016年6月28日
5

Such a small solution to a big annoyance. Thanks!

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
AuntyDhimmi2016年5月10日
5

Perfect! Best thing since support hose. I wouldn't surf the web without it. For those concerned with the upgraded "extra permissions requirements", that is the wording required and it must do that in order for the app to work properly. Read explanation at top of right column and look at some of your other extensions and apps that do the same thing. Tab Activate is a very handy time saver for anyone surfing the web!

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Kevin Martin (kmartin68x)2016年5月4日
5

I open things in new tabs all the time. But before I install this extension, I had to click on the new tab to view the new web page. Why open a new tab if you have to click to view? Not anymore! This extension works 100% of time.

Language en
10 helpful · 3 not helpful
Ksanytch Ksanytch2016年3月3日
5

Очень хорошо! Открывает новую вкладку рядом с текущей - это очень удобно! А не так, как сейчас везде: новая вкладка далеко за поворотом.

Language ru
2 helpful · 1 not helpful
B3L42016年1月22日
5

a MUST

Language en
Anonymous user2016年1月20日
4

Never understood why this functionality isn't straight built into Chrome. But very happy that TabActivate does it for you.

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful