Force Background Tab

Force New Tab Running In Background

Total ratings

4.01 (Rating count: 229)

Review summary

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Pros

Works as promised and effectively opens links in background tabs
Simple and easy to use
No adware or malware issues reported
Useful for multitasking
Specifically handles 'Search Google for...' links effectively

Cons

Needs to be updated to manifest v3
Not functioning properly on Mac despite working on Windows
Bug with bookmarks that resets to default tab behavior
Some users report it not working at all as claimed

Most mentioned

Requires update for manifest v3
Not working consistently across devices
Bug related to bookmark functionality
Effective in opening links in background tabs
Concerns over functionality claims

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Recent reviews

Recent rating average: 4.90

All time rating average: 4.01

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Rating filters

Date	Author	Lang	Comment
2024-10-15	Shank Stir	en	Great extension but this needs to be ported to manifest v3.
2024-10-13	senilvo acri carvalho
2024-08-23	Scarlet	en	Good
2024-08-07	Eadwine Rose	en	Both internal and external links open in a new tab in the background, perfect, and there is nothing else that does the same thing. Can you please update this so it works with the new manifest v3?
2024-08-07	Laptev walrus	en	great, simple, working
2024-07-24	Ross Vassev	en	works.
2024-07-13	Fran Mora	es	Funciona muy bien
2024-07-01	Mahesh Bandara Wijerathna	en	Does exactly what it promises to do. Thank you dev.
2024-06-06	cho cho	en	very very useful. I may click severl tab but don't want to read immediately.It's very good!
2024-05-27	A D	en	works beautifully on my Windows PC but recently installed on a Macbook and it isn't working :(

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