JIRA - Open external links in a new tab

Numerous users have requested this feature for JIRA but it has not - yet - landed on JIRA Cloud (https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-9380)

This is a tiny Chrome extension (less than 30 lines of code) to enable this behaviour - feedback welcome!

Features

• JIRA Cloud (*.atlassian.net)
• Opens external links in a new tab
• Internal links between Atlassian products should not be affected
• Ignores mailto: links

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Credit

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