Global New Tab Shortcut

This allows you to open a new tab from within any application with a keyboard shortcut. This means that as soon as you think of a…

What is Global New Tab Shortcut?

Global New Tab Shortcut is a Chrome extension that allows you to open a new tab with a keyboard shortcut from within any application. Simply install the extension, select a shortcut key, and you are just one keypress away from searching or opening a web page.

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By: Wout Mertens

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Users: 193 ▼ -2

Rating: 4.22 (9)

Version: 1.2.1 (Last updated: 2022-11-02)

Creation date: 2016-06-18

Risk impact: Very low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Size: 23.08K

Email: Wo*****@gmail.com

URLs: Website

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 53270 ▼ 192

Other rankings

#7897 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 7 #16 in shortcut keyword 33 ▲ 7 #244 in new tab keyword 50 ▼ 2 #255 in keyboard keyword 35 ▲ 13

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Summary

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This allows you to open a new tab from within any application with a keyboard shortcut.

This means that as soon as you think of a search to do or web page to open, you are just one keypress away from doing it.

!!! You MUST select a keyboard shortcut after installing !!!

To use, install the extension and then click on "Keyboard Shortcuts" at the bottom of the extensions page. There, select a shortcut key for "Global New Tab Shortcut" and be sure to change the dropdown to "Global" afterwards.

This extension doesn't add handlers to pages or anything fishy. It uses the built-in Chrome keyboard shortcut handling to create a new tab with the built-in Chrome APIs.

Source is at https://github.com/wmertens/global-chrome-tab

User reviews

Finally, no more custom Alfred or Raycast scripts to launch a new window. Works great, and I can specify different shortcuts per Chrome profile - Christmas came early this year. Thank you!

Akos Putz, 2024-04-05

Does it still work? What is ""Keyboard Shortcuts" at the bottom of the extensions page"? which page? I dont have nothing resembling that.

A, 2023-08-10

Thank you! Now that Google has retired the Chrome app launcher this is the next best thing that I've found so far for quickly launcher web searches. http://blog.chromium.org/2016/03/retiring-chrome-app-launcher.html