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Open Tabs In Foreground

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How to install Open in Chrome Web Store
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Status
  • Live on Store
Description from extension meta

Open Tabs In Foreground

Description from store

Open Tabs In Foreground
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Clicking a link using the left mouse button while having Ctrl pressed opens it
in a background tab by default. The same when using the middle mouse button.
This extension opens these tabs in the foreground instead. Tabs are only opened
in the background when having Shift pressed while clicking.

You won't need this extension in Firefox as it has a setting for this called
`When you open a link in a new tab, switch to it immediately`, but in Chrome
there is no way to achieve this otherwise.

Feedback
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You can report bugs or make feature requests on
https://github.com/sblask/webextension-open-tabs-in-foreground

Patches are welcome.

Latest reviews

John Langfield
Does not work on my latest version of chrome.
Vaclav Koral
Nice one, thanks a lot. I would give the fifth star for the same behavior when openning tabs from the bookmark bar - it works just in the opposite way than clicking on a link.
Смешные лохотронщики
Thanks a lot for a very useful feature
Thomas Ho
It works, but it doesn't respect the tab order, and instead always open new tab at the end of tab bar.
Thomas Ho
It works, but it doesn't respect the tab order, and instead always open new tab at the end of tab bar.
J.T. Brown III
This extension partially works but does not open the tab next to the current tab. Instead it opens the tab at the end of the tab bar. 5-stars if the developer can fix this...
J.T. Brown III
This extension partially works but does not open the tab next to the current tab. Instead it opens the tab at the end of the tab bar. 5-stars if the developer can fix this...
Rita Miller
Love it, but it should mention that you have to close & restart Chrome for it to work. Once that's done, it works fine. Just wish there was an option to open the tab next to the current one instead of at the right end of the tab bar. At least I got this (open link in foreground), so thanks for that!
Rita Miller
Love it, but it should mention that you have to close & restart Chrome for it to work. Once that's done, it works fine. Just wish there was an option to open the tab next to the current one instead of at the right end of the tab bar. At least I got this (open link in foreground), so thanks for that!