# Long Press New Tab

> Open links as background tabs by clicking links and holding. This add-on provide the functionality to open links in a new tab by a 'long' click on a link. ----- long left click long right click ----- drag link up down left right

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/long\_press\_new\_tab](https://chrome-stats.com/d/long_press_new_tab)

## Overview

- **ID:** `long_press_new_tab`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Kunihiro Ando
- **Category:** other,tabs
- **Daily users:** 185
- **Weekly downloads:** 1
- **Rating:** 4.61 / 5 (18 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.2resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-25
- **First published:** 2018-03-08
- **Size:** 32 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-15
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/long_press_new_tab/)
- **Website:** [https://www.facebook.com/kunihiro.ando.5150](https://www.facebook.com/kunihiro.ando.5150)

## Description

Long Press New Tab is a Firefox add-on that allows you to open links in a new tab by performing a 'long' click on a link. Simply click and hold on a link to open it as a background tab.

## Rankings

- #8,594 — Overall
- #9 — press
- #59 — new tab
- #108 — process
- #108 — song

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `tabs`
- `downloads`
- `clipboardWrite`
- `clipboardRead`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/long_press_new_tab)