Background-tab It

Name: Background-tab It
Rating: 4.6471 (17 reviews)
Author: fullburnen

Add a context menu option to open a link in a background tab. Very useful if you usually open links in a foreground tab but sometimes want to open certain link in the background instead.

Overview

Firefox Add-ons Store

Daily users

148

Data as of 2026-09-08

Rating:

4.65

(17)

Version:

1.1

Last updated: 2021-10-14

Features & Capabilities

Background-tab It is a Firefox add-on that adds a context menu option to open a link in a background tab. It is very useful if you usually open links in a foreground tab but sometimes want to open certain link in the background instead.

User Growth & Download Statistics

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Daily users:

Rating:

Version:

1.1 Last updated: 2021-10-14

Version code:

5309061

Creation date:

2017-11-30

Firefox add-on GUID:

{36bde3a5-9f17-4ad9-a587-d4a3c8e8d200}

Firefox add-on numeric ID:

895173

Weekly download count:

Firefox on Android:

Risk:

Permissions:

contextMenus

Size:

8.80KB

URLs:

Website

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-09-08

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 9,535 ▼ 108

Other rankings

#14 in hd backgrounds keyword 28

#16 in background keyword 19 ▼ 1

#98 in grok keyword 25 ▼ 1

#123 in group keyword 22 ▼ 3

#134 in grow keyword 10 ▼ 5

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Developed by:

fullburnen

Firefox Add-ons Store

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/background-tab-it/

Website:

https://github.com/fullburnen/background-tab_it

User Reviews

This works really well. The only two things that I'm missing are: 1. that the background tabs aren't created as child tabs of the active one, they're always just new tabs so they don't always end up where I'd expect them to be. I think this should be implementable. 2. that the menu item can't be at the top of the context menu (but sadly that's probably a limitation of Mozilla's post-quantum APIs).

by ha*****, 2025-12-29

by 远离*****, 2025-03-23

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Is Background-tab It Safe?

Risk impact

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Background-tab It does not require any sensitive permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

Risk likelihood

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Background-tab It has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

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