"Always open new tab for links" should only open new links for new websites, work for Bookmarks

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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

The "always open links in new tab" does exactly what it says on the box and 
nothing more.  This is great, but it would be better if it would only open new 
tabs when the link went to an external site.  That is, I can follow link after 
link on, say, code.google.com and no new links open at all, but once I follow a 
link to github.com or slashdot.org a new tab opens.  Different domain name = 
new tab.

Additionally, the feature should affect Bookmarks as well.  Clicking a bookmark 
should always open in a new tab.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

Using Chrome 11.0.696.25 beta on Win7 SP1 x64.  Using most recent 
chrome-toolbox available through extensions website.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by brandon....@gmail.com on 29 Mar 2011 at 8:43

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Original comment by jingz...@google.com on 23 May 2011 at 10:29

• Changed state: Accepted

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Issue 29 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by jingz...@google.com on 23 May 2011 at 10:31

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This would be an awesome addition to chrome-toolbox. This is the one feature 
that has kept me from migrating completely to Chrome. Firefox has the 
TabMixPlus extension that provides this functionality. 

I will work on a site and want all navigation and history to occur on that tab. 
If I click a link that takes me to another site or I click a bookmarked link, 
then I want it to open a new tab.

Original comment by kurt.dev...@gmail.com on 9 Nov 2011 at 8:36

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agree with the comments above as well.  links within the same domain should 
open in the active tab, and links which point to an external domain should open 
to a new tab.

Original comment by cutedrd...@gmail.com on 15 Dec 2011 at 1:59

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This is literally the only issue that keeps me from making the switch from 
Firefox.  What on earth is keeping you guys from upping your game???!!! Tab Mix 
Plus for Firefox is where you guys need to be.  Please get there soon.

Original comment by DavidDel...@gmail.com on 19 Jul 2012 at 11:25

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To echo off the other comments, I wish to have new tabs open from not only URL 
links, but also:
-bookmarks
-bookmark groups
-history

Having these features would make me switch from Firefox to Chrome

Original comment by sfmman2000 on 25 Jul 2012 at 5:07

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*bump*

Please add the following features:

- Open new tab from Bookmarks
- Open new tabs from Bookmark Groups
- Only open new tab for external URL

Original comment by thomas.h...@gmail.com on 8 Nov 2012 at 2:57

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I recently switched from Mozilla to Chrome, but I am so disappointed that I 
can't set my tabs to open according to my preference.  Specifically:
1. When clicking on a link, have this link open in a new tab, BUT
2. DO NOT focus to that tab. 

I do not want to have to hit Ctrl+click or right click the menu to "open in a 
new tab." 

Lastly, I read that if one middle clicks the mouse, it will open in a new tab.  
Nothing happens when I middle click my mouse. (I have checked my mouse 
settings; these seem to be working properly.)

Any help I may get, I greatly appreciate.  Without the colored tabs option 
offered in Mozilla and now this, I may return to Mozilla.

Thank you!

Original comment by ValerieL...@gmail.com on 7 Jan 2013 at 8:34

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I just download Toolbox today and the purpose of this thread still has not been 
resolved. It would be great to have links from a different domain open in a new 
tab rather than ALL links open in a new tab. #7 Thomas has the features that 
would most beneficial.

Thank you 

Original comment by jl9...@gmail.com on 16 May 2013 at 4:30

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It just seems incredible that Google is so dense on this issue and seems to be 
actively hostile to the idea that we don't want them to destroy tabs. If you 
ask the question on the web you get people telling you all the gyrations you 
can go through to tell Chrome to open in a new tab. That is not the point! It 
is not acceptable for Chrome to replace the content of the tab unless I perform 
an action within that tab window (click a link).

A fitting analogy is a word processor program. If you were editing a document 
and decided you needed to open another document to copy some text from it, 
would it be acceptable under any circumstances that the word processor 
discarded all of your edits and replaced the current document? Does it matter 
if you can ctrl-click or some other gesture to tell it to not throw away the 
document that you had open? The answer is no! It would never be acceptable for 
opening a new file in a word processor to do anything other than open a new 
window alongside the file you already had open.

Opening a bookmark is exactly analogous to opening a new document in a word 
processor and clicking on a bookmark should ALWAYS open a new tab. There 
shouldn't be an option to enable this behavior. It should always be the 
default! Any other behavior is just thinking like back in the days before 
browsers had tabs. Back in the days of Netscape there was no way to open in a 
new tab, but this is not the 90's anymore.

Original comment by dalewk...@gmail.com on 23 May 2013 at 2:16

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Dude just click in your mouse wheel on a link and it opens in a new tab

Original comment by lgh...@uow.edu.au on 19 Aug 2013 at 8:21

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Yes, this happened to me too after the latest update of Chrome.

Original comment by E.A.Guba...@gmail.com on 22 Aug 2013 at 6:23

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I don't want to click my fucking mouse wheel asshole.  Me, and the other 
thousands of TabMixPlus users on Firefox want the extension to be intuitive and 
only open links in new tabs if it's a new domain.  Go fuck yourself with your 
mouse wheel, k.

Original comment by DavidDel...@gmail.com on 22 Aug 2013 at 11:20

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I am also a Firefox TabMixPlus user and would migrate to Chrome if it wasn't 
for this "new tab for links to different domains" issue but is that language 
absolutely necessary?

Original comment by nathan.b...@gmail.com on 22 Aug 2013 at 11:30

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Also, mouse wheel does not work when you have a Macbook with a touchpad.  I can 
understand the frustration, but you are correct that the language is 
inappropriate for this forum.

Original comment by peter.cu...@gmail.com on 22 Aug 2013 at 12:45

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Sigh... like it even matters. This is a 2 year old forum full of frustrated 
people and always will be. Nothing will come of this. I've been checking on it 
since it opened in 2011.  It's clear they don't care about their users... so 
pardon me if I've stopped giving a crap.

Original comment by DavidDel...@gmail.com on 26 Aug 2013 at 7:26

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And as if on cue!!!  Pressing enter in address bar for new tab is now 
completely broken in the new update of chrome.  All foul language qualms 
aside... real talk... they seriously, like.. really seriously, do not give a 
shit about you or this extension. Makes me sad.

Original comment by DavidDel...@gmail.com on 26 Aug 2013 at 7:57

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DavidDel nailed it. I starred this thread ages ago, with little to no hope that 
it would ever actually get fixed. If you've ever created/starred an issue or 
tried to get any support from Google you will quickly find out that Google 
doesn't care about end users. Rather than holding my breath I switched back to 
Firefox + Tab Mix Plus. 

Chrome doesn't offer enough benefit *to me* to use it until this is fixed. When 
I'm on my PC, I shouldn't have to click a middle mouse button when I don't want 
to. On my laptop, I don't even have a middle button. I like a nice, consistent 
browsing experience which Firefox offers me that Chrome does not.

For others, that's not the case. It all boils down to personal preference.

Would I like Chrome to let me decide how to open my tabs? Yes, very much.  Will 
it ever actually do that? Probably not. The one thing that should be painfully 
obvious by now is that Google won't be fixing this any time soon. And even if 
they do, there's no guarantee they won't take it away again on a whim (see 
gReader). 

Again, Google doesn't care about end users -- if you don't believe that, you 
just haven't been burned enough by them yet. It's likely just a matter of time, 
though.

Original comment by web...@gmail.com on 26 Aug 2013 at 5:02

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Agreed, even the extensions that have worked in the past, break on new 
versions. Those developers have stopped wasting their time.  Although Google 
supports multiple tabs, it seems that they want to make it as difficult as 
possible for users to open new tabs when there is a logical algorithm we want 
to apply, as in #7.

Original comment by peter.cu...@gmail.com on 26 Aug 2013 at 5:25