Force New Tab

This extension is no longer available in the official store. Delisted on 2025-09-15.

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Description from extension meta

Normally a link that you Ctrl-click or middle-click is opened in a new tab. This extension enforces that default behavior.

Description from store

Note #1: After installation, you need to refresh your tabs before the extension starts working.

Note #2: The extension doesn't work on these special sandboxed pages:

Note #3: The extension doesn't work on every single site, because not everything that looks like a link is actually a link in HTML.

kouldb anyone 2018-12-14: Doesn't work. Yet another extension the makes false claims. Yet another developer wasting my time.
Olle Ekman 2016-07-27: Seems to work as expected. Fixes both ctrl-click and the vimium shortcut for opening a link in a new tab on pages where links were previously forced to open in the current tab.

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