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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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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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John Harrell2014年10月28日
3

I was really excited to get this. It worked for me for links within a page, but not for bookmarks. I switched to the "Tabs to the Front" extension, which seems to work for both.

Language en
2 helpful · 1 not helpful
David Bender2014年10月22日
5

I really dislike having to "open" a tab, then switch to it. This opens the new tab, and automatically brings it to the front and switches to it. EXACTLY what I was looking for!

Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Mike Kuykendall2014年10月21日
5

I still don't understand why this is not an exposed setting in Chrome, bravo!

Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
tirey932014年10月18日
5

jedyne, ktore działa ;D

Language pl
Max Locke2014年10月9日
5

Simple and effective!

Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
igor rochev2014年5月22日
5

Thank you VERY much. This must be the default behaviour of Chrome.

Language en
1 helpful · 1 not helpful
Stiofan Sportacus2014年3月29日
5

Works for me. Opens in the foreground, adjacent to the tab I click on. Excellent. Thank you.

Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
имя фамилия2014年3月19日
5

НАКОНЕЦ-ТО НАШЕЛ!!!

Language ru
1 helpful · 1 not helpful
Craig Marsden2014年2月23日
3

Would be nice if it would work on bookmarks as well without having to hold down ctrl + shift. :-(

Language en
1 helpful · 1 not helpful
Big Kev2013年12月28日
4

So far so good, kudos to the developer. Awesome job. Chrome needs this by default!

Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful