Force Background Tab

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Force New Tab Running In Background

Latest reviews

• (2025-07-02) Olga Voronina: Does not work or no longer working. Restarted Chrome, unistalled/reinstalled the extension - nothing.
• (2025-05-12) James X: nice crx
• (2025-05-09) Nauman Nasir: so good
• (2025-04-20) Kai Pfannenstiel: Thank you for the January 2020 update! Edit April 2025: It hardly works anymore. Now, it will open a new tab in the foreground and might switch back to the previous tab after 0.5 to 2 seconds. A discussion on the developer's GitHub page has stalled: https://github.com/monque/ChromeExtension-ForceBackgroundTab/issues/22
• (2025-04-20) Kai Pfannenstiel: Thank you for the January 2020 update! Edit April 2025: It hardly works anymore. Now, it will open a new tab in the foreground and might switch back to the previous tab after 0.5 to 2 seconds. A discussion on the developer's GitHub page has stalled: https://github.com/monque/ChromeExtension-ForceBackgroundTab/issues/22
• (2025-03-28) Eadwine Rose: LOVE this in Chrome! In Vivaldi 7.3 in Debian based linux unfortunately it doesn't work for externally clicked links (so from my mail program for example, or the feed reader). Those still stubbornly open in the foreground.
• (2025-03-28) Abdo Ayman: exactly what I needed Thanks
• (2025-03-12) Richard L Y: Doesn't work; or no longer working; whichever.
• (2025-03-08) Papa Bear: As of 8 March 2025, it still no longer works. Please update!
• (2025-01-04) Shawn Hughes: Works perfectly as of 01/04/2025. Super nieche but super effective. Thank you so much.
• (2024-12-24) shan hu: Not working anymore for chrome latest version
• (2024-12-19) 2024 you need to update this. not working properly 2024
• (2024-12-19) 2024 you need to update this. not working properly 2024
• (2024-12-06) Mehdi Rad: It's great and still working fine, but I'm sorry to see this message "This extension may soon no longer be supported because it doesn't follow best practices for Chrome extensions." in this page. I hope google respect users with special needs like this addon.
• (2024-12-05) __: Not working anymore, and no alternatives that I could find. Sad.
• (2024-11-18) Mathias: Works fine but only most of the time on many websites. One where it's easy to reproduce: Civitai.com. If I middle click on links to open them in new tabs, VERY often Chrome takes me automatically to the newly opened tab. And I constantly need to go back to the tab I was browsing. This extension worked fine for years. But it's now struggling with more recent websites :/ Thanks for coding that extension in the first place anyway. It's been so useful for so long that it's only when it doesn't work properly on the whole internet anymore that we realize how much it's a useful feature that should be there by default :/ Hope you'll fine the time, and the need to someday update your extension. Cheers ;)
• (2024-11-14) JC: Tried to get BullX to load in background tabs. It didn't work. Not sure if it has anything to do with manifest 3. Bummer.
• (2024-11-14) V: Stopped working?
• (2024-11-08) Joe Momma: not working as of today for me
• (2024-10-15) Shank Stir: Great extension but this needs to be ported to manifest v3.
• (2024-08-23) Scarlet: Good
• (2024-08-07) Laptev walrus: great, simple, working
• (2024-07-24) Ross Vassev: works.
• (2024-07-01) Mahesh Bandara Wijerathna: Does exactly what it promises to do. Thank you dev.
• (2024-06-06) cho cho: very very useful. I may click severl tab but don't want to read immediately.It's very good!
• (2024-05-27) A D: works beautifully on my Windows PC but recently installed on a Macbook and it isn't working :(
• (2024-03-16) Krishna Mishra: nw
• (2024-02-24) Sho Kikugawa: It gets a couple of stars for at least doing what it says it does, but it feels like a sledgehammer solution to the problem.
• (2024-01-14) Lucía Trucco: Literally all ive been looking for Chrome! works perfectly! hero!
• (2023-12-14) Clemens Ratte-Polle: Addon Force Background Tab should have the option to open background tabs also on clicked links with pressed CTRL key.
• (2023-10-22) Clive: Finally a "search Google for" "force to background" that actually works! Others on here don't work, this one does.
• (2023-10-22) Clive: Finally a "search Google for" "force to background" that actually works! Others on here don't work, this one does.
• (2023-10-21) zK: working perfectly fine. 👍👍
• (2023-10-21) zK: working perfectly fine. 👍👍
• (2023-10-03) Леопольд Аркадьевич: I've found a bug: If you add page to a bookmarks it gonna switch back to default tab behavior, without switching the plugin off. To fix this you need to open tab with default behavior that was set in the plugin options... Until you add some page to bookmarks again.
• (2023-10-03) Леопольд Аркадьевич: I've found a bug: If you add page to a bookmarks it gonna switch back to default tab behavior, without switching the plugin off. To fix this you need to open tab with default behavior that was set in the plugin options... Until you add some page to bookmarks again.
• (2023-08-22) Angela Hoffmann: hilfreich, weil man weiterarbeiten kann und nachträglich geöffnete Tabs, sich nicht mehr vordrängen.
• (2023-07-06) Ana Yapur: Parece que ya no funciona.
• (2023-05-17) Eric Carlsen: I thought I wasn't going to be able to find something that forces "Search Google for..." to open in a background tab but this works!
• (2023-05-17) Eric Carlsen: I thought I wasn't going to be able to find something that forces "Search Google for..." to open in a background tab but this works!
• (2023-02-04) Takii Marskii: I actually checked the activities and I can confirm that it doesn't load any adware/malware on any tabs you have open. If it was the case before then Google should have claimed the extension from this dev and made it a feature into Chrome for breaking TOS.
• (2023-02-04) Takii Marskii: I actually checked the activities and I can confirm that it doesn't load any adware/malware on any tabs you have open. If it was the case before then Google should have claimed the extension from this dev and made it a feature into Chrome for breaking TOS.
• (2022-12-21) Rob Conde: This doesn't work at all like it claims. I don't know why people keep voting it high stars while saying it doesn't work.
• (2022-12-21) Rob Conde: This doesn't work at all like it claims. I don't know why people keep voting it high stars while saying it doesn't work.
• (2022-11-12) shiqi shen: 对谷歌学术无效（Not working in Google Schoolar）
• (2022-09-02) Agent G of B.I.T.S: I have used this for a while, only to realise that it effectively hijacks your Google search results with unwanted ads, and they link to unsafe sites. I only saw this due to the removal of software that had been silently blocking this extensions activity as malicious. This extension is malware by any definition- DO NOT INSTALL IT! The developer is clearly a deceitful scumbag.
• (2022-09-02) Agent G of B.I.T.S: I have used this for a while, only to realise that it effectively hijacks your Google search results with unwanted ads, and they link to unsafe sites. I only saw this due to the removal of software that had been silently blocking this extensions activity as malicious. This extension is malware by any definition- DO NOT INSTALL IT! The developer is clearly a deceitful scumbag.
• (2022-07-15) Magnus Hansson: Great extension, does what it is supposed to do.
• (2022-07-15) Magnus Hansson: Great extension, does what it is supposed to do.
• (2022-06-07) רון שטראוס: Works great (except for the slightly jarring instant transition, but that's what chrome's API can allow), and maintains your privacy. Only had to figure out how to write exceptions - you need to write the full URL. Thank you :)