Open bookmarks in a new tab

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Make every bookmark open in a new tab — with just a left-click.

Latest reviews

• (2025-07-16) Dave Frailey: Gave it a try and ended up backing it out for now. Found that quite a few my bookmarks didn't just gain the "newtab@" username trigger, but were also rewritten to redirect through bookmarks-evz.pages.dev, and consequently lost their favicon. For instance, a simple Google Maps URL: https://www.google.com/maps Was rewritten as: https://[email protected]/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fmaps That said, I greatly appreciate the work done to get it this far and it's a crying shame that Chrome doesn't just simply have an option to open all bookmarks in new tabs. I can't think of a single case where it would matter to me if every bookmark opened in a new tab. Also, a suggestion: Why not allow the extension to be active without automatically rewriting bookmarks? I don't mind individually editing the bookmarks that I really want to open in new tabs (it's easy enough to add the "newtab@" username). This would mean that instead of rewriting all bookmarks when the extension is initially installed, and having an "all-or-nothing" configuration option -- you would instead not rewrite all bookmarks when initially installed (which might be safer, and more appealing to many users), and instead have an option to "[ ] Automatically rewrite bookmarks to open in new tabs" (that wouldn't be selected by default, and when selected would rewrite all bookmarks with the newtab@ username, and would prompt to undo that when deselected). But if the "automatic rewrite" option isn't active, the extension still recognizes and works with URL's written with the newtab@ username (it might be a good idea to recognize multiple username triggers, so manually edited URL's wouldn't be lost by activating and deactivating automatic mode). Food for thought...
• (2025-07-11) gogatsu 26: DANGER! DANGER! ALL MY BOOKMARKS WERE REPLACED!
• (2025-06-09) Ocean Zhou: Thank you very much for developing this extension. Chrome has not supported this feature, so I can only use the chrome++ project on github, but that project crashes in the latest Chrome online installation version. I would like to make a small suggestion. Can you add a feature that when the current page is a new tab or a specified web page, click the bookmark to open it directly on the current page, that is, keep the original browser opening page method. Because after opening the browser, the first page is usually the commonly used start page or a blank page. After clicking the bookmark, this start page is no longer needed. Thank you very much again!
• (2025-06-08) Jay Katz: so happy someone made this
• (2025-05-29) Poopyhea: Works great, only thing is that you can't open the chrome webstore or the internal websites in chrome on left click like Open Bookmark On Left Click can, which would be quite nice, but it still is very good. Edit: doesn't seem to work on proton pass, which is a bit annoying Edit2: all of these have been fixed, thank you Vitaliy Potapov :)
• (2025-05-18) Richard McWolff (Wolffie): YAY, finally a simple addon that actually works as expected. THANK YOU!
• (2025-05-12) Netspeedz: Worked until imported new bookmarks then quit. Setting the the folders in the options screen is not persistent.
• (2025-05-11) mads: It kinda works but there are quite a few inadvertent consequences that follow with using this add-on. Due to the way it works of permanently altering all your bookmarks (https://url → https://newtab@url), for some odd reason some of the websites do not like this way of loading from this style of bookmark_url. reddit started loading partial pages, sheets started throwing some unknown error, one website is stuck in perpetual flickering. Initially I could not figure out whats really happening. To troubleshoot, I disabled the addons; clear chrome cookies & stuff but it still persisted since the bookmark urls are all different now. At some point I figured out the problem, exported all my bookmarks → bulk edited them using a html editor to replace/delete the `newtab@` part in all the urls → delete all the bookmarks in my chrome → import this new html file to load in my chrome and its all cool now!
• (2025-05-09) Kazimierz Król: The addon works great, and kudos to the author for overcoming the obstacles. Why such a simple feature required an addon is beyond me though.
• (2025-05-09) Sassafras Sassafras: "Brilliant Solution to a Common Problem" This extension solves a simple but annoying issue - bookmarks replacing your current page. Now all bookmarks open in new tabs automatically. The developer's approach is brilliant, working around Chrome's limitations seamlessly. Zero configuration needed, no performance impact, just install and enjoy. A small extension that makes a big difference in daily browsing efficiency.