Navigate on paste

Middle click on a page navigates to the content of the primary selection. Requires Linux.

What is Navigate on paste?

"Navigate on paste" is a Chrome extension that allows middle click navigation on Linux by pasting the content of the primary selection. It enables navigation to the contents of the PRIMARY selection by middle clicking on parts of a tab that don't normally accept paste actions. The extension does not work on Chrome's new tab page or any other chrome:// pages, but has the option to load a blank page instead. Updates to the extension include features like URL matching, new tab behavior, and input area detection bug fixes.

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This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2024-01-17

By: vandebo

Users: 148

Rating: 4.06 (31)

Version: 0.7.1 (Last updated: 2013-06-26)

Creation date: 2013-06-26

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: High risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Overrides new tab: Yes

Size: 11.59K

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Not available on Edge

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Summary

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On Linux, middle click triggers a paste action. With this extension, middle clicking on part of a tab that wouldn't normally accept a paste action will cause the tab to navigate to the contents of the PRIMARY selection. Due to restrictions of the extension system, it does not work on the new tab page, or any other chrome:// page. However, there is an option to load a blank page instead of the new tab page.

Changes: v 0.7.1

Update manifest to version 2; this may help with the regression bug where a new tab was opened as well.
Removed unneeded permission "tabs"
Added option to load a specific URL to the new tab page.

v 0.6

Bug fix: new tab behavior didn't work correctly until it was clicked.
Bug fix: cut and paste handling for URL matching regex were broken.

v 0.5 Thanks to Adam Katz and Simon Schubert for the improvements.

Strip leading and trailing whitespace from clipboard contents.
Add option to navigate only if clipboard contents match a regular expression.

User reviews

I really want this, but, at least in Chromium, it ruins middle clicking on links. Too frustrating to keep installed.

Jared Davis, 2014-07-29

Great extension but breaks in Chrome 33 by causing new pages to open using the old, unsupported chrome-internal://newtab. Had to disable until this gets fixed. Or I find a new extension that does the same thing.

Brian Murrell, 2014-03-16

Doesn't work after ^T. Doesn't work on this page. Breaks middle-click on links (it opens new tab with the link AND changes current one to some randomness you had in PRIMARY clipboard). Oh well, back to Firefox. Next attempt to try Chrome in another 2 years, cheers!

Leszek Matok, 2013-05-19

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Safety

Risk impact

Navigate on paste may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.