# New Tabber

> Automatically open links in a new tab

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/new-tabber](https://chrome-stats.com/d/new-tabber)

## Overview

- **ID:** `new-tabber`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Apache Extensions
- **Category:** tabs
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (3 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2019-09-01
- **First published:** 2019-08-31
- **Size:** 16 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/new-tabber/)
- **Website:** [https://gitlab.com/mit-open-source-projects](https://gitlab.com/mit-open-source-projects)

## Description

New Tabber is a Firefox add-on that allows you to choose whether to open links in a new tab or on the same page by simply toggling it on or off.

## Rankings

- #71,925 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- 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/new-tabber)