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Open in new tab by Ramkumar K R

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  • by LudwigWN, 3 years ago
    2017 review: Works pretty well, except it seems for "stuff.co.nz" where it tends to open links in same tab most of the time, but sometimes does open in a new tab. Confused? So am I! Maybe a Firefox bug involved?
    Above is still the case in December 2021 [& Dec22] ... has this Add-on been abandoned by Ramkumar K R?
  • by Firefox user 10292680, 4 years ago
  • by Firefox user 13487987, 7 years ago
  • by WRCS-UK, 7 years ago
  • by showens, 7 years ago
    Needs an option to open the new tab next to the current tab.
  • by Firefox user 12708137, 8 years ago
    Hi, great addon, and great idea, but why not the option to open link in a new background tab? (sorry for my english, I hope you understand) Cheers
    ¿Por qué no tiene opción de abrir links en segundo plano?

    Developer response

    posted 7 years ago
    Hi,

    I thought about your suggestion and found out that there are two ways for this -

    a. "Bad" Workaround - Overriding a browser configuration in about:config - You can change the browser behavior to open all links which open in a new tab in the background by setting the
    "browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground" config to true.
    More info on - https://stackoverflow.com/q/7386208

    b. Using the "tabs" API of webextensions - This would require an almost complete rewrite of the extension and can break a number of websites. I would like to use the tabs API but it will take a long time to iron out all the bugs and release it.

    Thanks,