New Adjacent Tab

Opens a new tab to the right or left of the current one.

New Adjacent Tab is a powerful Chrome extension designed exclusively for Google Chrome users. It enhances your browsing experience by allowing you to open new tabs immediately to the right or left of your current tab, offering better tab organization and faster navigation.

With configurable settings syncable across devices, you can open tabs using convenient keyboard shortcuts (Alt+T for right, Alt+H for left), the context menu, or the extension icon. Note: This extension is tailored solely for Chrome and may not work with other Chromium-based browsers.

Manifest V3
Users:
10,000+
Rating:
4.69
(72)
Version:
1.0.2 (Last updated: 2023-09-14)
Creation date:
2019-09-23
Permissions:
  • contextMenus
  • storage
Size:
10.96K
URLs:
Website
Full description:
See detailed description
Updated:
21 hours ago

User reviews

Users appreciate the extension for reliably opening new blank tabs immediately adjacent to the current tab via shortcuts, significantly improving tab management. Many praise its simplicity, lack of unnecessary permissions, and customization of shortcuts. However, common issues include its inability to open new tabs adjacent when opening links from bookmarks bar or external apps and limited control over tab ordering with multiple tabs. Users desire more advanced features like queuing and left-side opening as well as better bookmark integration, indicating room for future enhancements.
Pros
  • Conveniently opens new tabs adjacent to the current tab, improving browsing experience
  • Allows customization of shortcut keys for opening new tabs next to the current one
  • Works consistently with links on web pages
  • Useful for managing tabs especially with tab groups becoming more popular
  • Lightweight and doesn’t require unnecessary permissions
Cons
  • Does not open new tabs adjacent to the current tab when links/bookmarks are opened from bookmarks bar or external apps
  • Lacks options to control behavior when opening multiple tabs from the same page, such as queuing or timing
  • Only opens new blank tabs adjacent to current tab, does not support opening multiple links/bookmarks immediately adjacent
  • No support across different profiles without installing separately
  • No options for opening new tabs to the left or advanced tab management
Recent reviews
This is essential tool! Convenient, and takes my browsing experience to the next level.
by Andrii, 2025-03-31

Does not work for external apps, then the link/tab does not open right next to the active tab, it opens at the end of all tabs in the window.
by André Deiß, 2025-03-29

It does work, but as many other Open tab to right extensions, I cannot control behavior when opening multiple tabs via hyperlinks from the same page. In this case, it will queue all the new tabs from left to right (so if you open 3 tabs from the same page via hyperlinks, the 3rd one will be 3 places to the right). It would be nice to have options such as: - always open to the immediate right - queue tabs in order of hyperlinks click, but refresh the queue after some timer (duration parameterable in options) and restart opening new tab to the immediate right after that time
by L Nguyen Huu, 2025-03-18
View all user reviews

Extension safety

Risk impact
Very low risk impact

New Adjacent Tab does not require any sensitive permissions.

Risk impact analysis details
    Risk likelihood
    Very low risk likelihood

    New Adjacent Tab has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

    Risk likelihood analysis details
    • High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
    • Low **** ********* *** ******* **** **** * ****** **** ***** ******** *** **** ****** ** ** ****** *** *****
    • Low **** ********* *** ***** **** **** * ****** **** ***** ********** *** **** ****** ** ** ****** *** *****
    • Good **** ********* ** * ******** ********* ** ****** *** *****
    • Good **** ********* *** **** **** *******
    Upgrade to see full risk analysis details

    Promo images

    New Adjacent Tab marquee promo image
    Marquee promo image
    Small promo image

    Similar extensions

    Here are some Chrome extensions that are similar to New Adjacent Tab:

    Open Tabs Next to Current Open Tabs Next to Current
    Sebastian Blask
    10K 4.27 (98)
    Child Tab Next Child Tab Next
    Gavin Borg
    717 4.20 (20)
    Alternate Tab Order Alternate Tab Order
    https://techknight.com
    6K 4.51 (35)
    Open New Tab Here Open New Tab Here
    Gilmore Davidson
    518 4.77 (22)
    Open New Tab After Current Tab Open New Tab After Current Tab
    https://arnaudligny.fr
    3K 4.31 (35)
    Right Click Opens Link New Tab Right Click Opens Link New Tab
    Bill Hedworth
    5K 4.34 (29)
    Activate New Tab Activate New Tab
    痛ったい
    5K 3.96 (24)
    Tab Position Options Tab Position Options
    安東邦泰
    60K 4.37 (141)
    Always Right Always Right
    Dietrich Ayala
    1,000 4.29 (21)
    Open Tab Next Right to Current Open Tab Next Right to Current
    toshi
    1,000 3.62 (13)
    Rearrange Tabs Rearrange Tabs
    Mohnish Thallavajhula
    10K 4.79 (154)
    Duplicate Tab Shortcut Duplicate Tab Shortcut
    https://stefansundin.github.io
    80K 4.93 (151)