Force New Tab

Normally a link that you Ctrl-click or middle-click is opened in a new tab. This extension enforces that default behavior.

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This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2022-12-25

By: iisisoft

Users: 65

Rating: 2.50 (2)

Version: 1.0.2 (Last updated: 2017-07-06)

Creation date: 2017-07-06

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: High risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

<all_urls>
tabs

Size: 3.46K

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Note #1: After installation, you need to refresh your tabs before the extension starts working.

Note #2: The extension doesn't work on these special sandboxed pages:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/* chrome://* chrome-extension://*

Note #3: The extension doesn't work on every single site, because not everything that looks like a link is actually a link in HTML.

User reviews

Doesn't work. Yet another extension the makes false claims. Yet another developer wasting my time.

kouldb anyone, 2018-12-14

Seems to work as expected. Fixes both ctrl-click and the vimium shortcut for opening a link in a new tab on pages where links were previously forced to open in the current tab.