Background Tab for NewsBlur
Opens the active item in a background tab when the user presses a customizable hotkeys (default: 'o' and 'v') in NewsBlur.
What is Background Tab for NewsBlur?
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Summary
This extension allows you to open a link in a background tab by pressing a customizable hotkey (default 'o' or 'v'). This feature used to work without an extension, but it broke starting with Chrome 41.
Be sure to reload the NewsBlur page after installing or changing the hotkey(s).
Source code is available at: https://github.com/Lyrrad/NewsBlurBackgroundTab
What's new?
0.4.1:
Add support for beta.newsblur.com (Thanks to David Edwards) Migrated from deprecated chrome.extension to chrome.runtime (Thanks to Jefferson Scher)
0.4.0:
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Risk impact
Background Tab for NewsBlur is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.
Risk likelihood
Background Tab for NewsBlur has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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