Open Links in New Tab

Modern Chrome Web Extension and Firefox Browser Addon to Open Links in New Tabs for Specified Domains or Temporarily on Any Tab.

• Install
• Features
• Configuration
• Development
  • Building

Install

• Google Chrome Web Store
• Mozilla Firefox Add-ons

All Chromium Based Browsers can install the extension from the Chrome Web Store.

Advanced Users can:

• Download the latest Chrome Release from GitHub
• Download the latest Firefox Release from GitHub

Features

Please submit a Feature Request for new features.
For any issues, bugs or concerns; please Open an Issue.

• Toggle Sites to Always Open Links in New Tabs
• Temporarily Open All Links in New Tabs for Current Site
• Update on Scroll Option to Always Update Links
• Options Page to View and Edit Toggled Sites and More
• Automatic Dark/Light Mode based on Browser Setting
• Activate from Icon, Context Menu, or Keyboard Shortcuts

Planned Upcoming Features

• Enable for Specific URL Only
• Enable for Matching Regex URL Only
• Toggle Enable Globally
• Toggle Blacklist/Whitelist
• Export/Import URL List

If you want to see any of these, or another, feature implemented faster, please open a Feature Request.

Configuration

You can pin the Addon by clicking the Puzzle Piece, find the Web Extension icon, then;
Chrome, click the Pin icon.
Firefox, click the Settings Wheel and Pin to Toolbar.

To open the options, click on the icon (from above) then click Open Options.

Development

Quick Start

To run chrome or firefox with web-ext.

npm isntall
npm run chrome
npm run firefox

To Load Unpacked/Temporary Add-on make a manifest.json and run from the src folder.

npm run manifest:chrome
npm run manifest:firefox

For more information on web-ext, read this documentation.
To pass additional arguments to an npm run command, use --.
Example: npm run chrome -- --chromium-binary=...

Building

Install the requirements and copy libraries into the src/dist directory by running npm install. See gulpfile.js for more information on postinstall.

npm install

To load unpacked or temporary addon from the src folder, you must generate the src/manifest.json for the desired browser.

npm run manifest:chrome
npm run manifest:firefox

If you would like to create a .zip archive of the src directory for the desired browser.

npm run build
npm run build:chrome
npm run build:firefox

For more information on building, see the scripts in the package.json file.

Chrome Setup

1. Build or Download a Release.
2. Unzip the archive, place the folder where it must remain and note its location for later.
3. Open Chrome, click the 3 dots in the top right, click Extensions, click Manage Extensions.
4. In the top right, click Developer Mode then on the top left click Load unpacked.
5. Navigate to the folder you extracted in step #3 then click Select Folder.

Firefox Setup

Note: Firefox Temporary addon's will not remain after restarting Firefox, therefore; it is very useful to keep addon storage after uninstall/restart with keepStorageOnUninstall.

1. Build or Download a Release.
2. Unzip the archive, place the folder where it must remain and note its location for later.
3. Go to about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox and click Load Temporary Add-on...
4. Navigate to the folder you extracted earlier, select manifest.json then click Select File.
5. Open about:config search for extensions.webextensions.keepStorageOnUninstall and set to true.

If you need to test a build or browser restart, you must pack the addon. This only works in ESR, Development, or Nightly.

1. Run npm run build:firefox then use web-ext-artifacts/{name}-firefox-{version}.zip.
2. Open about:config search for xpinstall.signatures.required and set to false.
3. Open about:addons and drag the zip file to the page or choose Install from File from the Settings wheel.