# Open Selected Links

> Opens multiple links in the selected content in the current or new window or a tab group.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/open-selected-links-ff](https://chrome-stats.com/d/open-selected-links-ff)

## Overview

- **ID:** `open-selected-links-ff`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** N Krishnaswami
- **Category:** tabs
- **Daily users:** 6
- **Version:** 1.8.6
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-04
- **First published:** 2025-12-28
- **Size:** 71 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/open-selected-links-ff/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/nkrishnaswami/open-selected-links](https://github.com/nkrishnaswami/open-selected-links)

## Description

When viewing a page containing a list of links you want to open, such as a list of references in Wikipedia or a paper, it's convenient to be able to open them all at once rather than opening and dragging one at a time.

This extension adds context menus item for selections to open all the links contained in them in the current window (optionally in a new tab group) or a new window.  

Alternatively, you can bring up the extension's popup menu to choose exactly which links to open (and now, you can also filter the link text with a regular expression!), whether to open them in the current or a new window, and whether to add them to a new or existing tab group. You can also open the tabs "snoozed" to reduce memory footprint prior to reading the tabs.

Finally, you can set up keyboard shortcuts to open selected links with a keystroke.

## Rankings

- #41,997 — Overall
- #209 — selection
- #222 — links

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `clipboardWrite`
- `contextMenus`
- `scripting`
- `storage`
- `tabGroups`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Allows reading and modifying clipboard content, which can be sensitive, posing a moderate privacy risk.
- 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/open-selected-links-ff)