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Open in new tab by Ramkumar K R

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  • by U.W., 5 months ago
    Works well. Easy to use.
  • by Xium, 10 months ago
    Thank you very much.
    Simple and easy to use, works on android.

    Remember to go to the extension settings humans.
  • by kirsten, a year ago
    it does work, you have to turn it on for a website for it to work (which i like because some websites have a weird thing where you have to open the link on the page and its like a popup)
  • by Foster, 3 years ago
    Works fine for me .thank you.
  • by Firefox user 14399393, 3 years ago
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  • by di-_-ib, 5 years ago
    Best!!
  • by Firefox user 9842646, 5 years ago
    Works great on Google. Love it!
  • by Projekt R, 5 years ago
    So far so good. Works as expected. Thank you.
  • by DataDoc, 6 years ago
    Just started testing, seems to work as described.
  • by Firefox user 12570361, 6 years ago
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  • by guybrush45, 7 years ago
    Love it, been after an "open in new tab" so all links open in "New Tabs" (Like Maxthon)....Love It!!
  • by sandro79, 7 years ago
  • by Firefox user 13799782, 7 years ago
    This add-on works well, in Firefox on Android. When configuring the app for individual web sites, the fully qualified domain name for the site should be specified with the site's complete hostname - e.g www.google.com as instead of google.com. For any pages open when the add-on is installed, the add-in's functionality may become available then, once the page has been reloaded. Of course, it would be available for new pages and tabs too. Works well as a workaround for Google having apparently removed the "Open search results in new tab" option from Google "Search Settings."
  • by Firefox user 13280792, 7 years ago
    Yes!
  • by Firefox user 11640498, 7 years ago
    Thank you and congrats for your add-on.

    For many years I used https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/open-link-in-new-tab
    It was perfect for me.
    Sadly was not upgraded for FF+57.

    I installed and tested your add-on. In general, perfect, works ok.
    But in some pages (addons.mozilla.org and other pages), it doesn't work. I realize it is because some pages doesn't allow it. Am I right? I tested wildcards like *.*, and even that didn't work.
    In some other pages, like facebook, the "notifications" option doesn't work with this add-on, it is totally blocked. The same happens with "friend requests", "messages" and many other functions in facebook. Or am I doing something wrong?

    Thank you again!
  • by Mirko, 8 years ago
    Please, change tabify.js this way:

    for(var item in items){
    var re = new RegExp( '^'+item.replace('*','.*')+'$' );
    if (re.test(hostName)){
    addTarget();
    }
    }

    This would allow us to specify domain* or *domain or even * as hostname (to allow all opening in new tab for all domains).

    A secondary field "exclude domains" would improve this further. If Allowed (*) and not Denied, thus addTarget.

    Thank you

    Developer response

    posted 8 years ago
    Hi,

    Thanks for the suggestion. It is a wonderful idea to define a regex for the hostname.

    However, there are few concerns such as the actions to be shown in the popup when a regex matches the url

    Can you send a pull request so that we can discuss more about it there?
    Link to the repo- https://github.com/ramkumar-kr/open-in-new-tab

    Thanks
  • by Firefox user 10061382, 8 years ago
    Installed this on firefox for Android (nightly), but it doesn't appear to work. It Lets me add a URL in the add-on settings, but doesn't change any behavior. When I add a few URLs, the space to add a new URL also disappears.

    Developer response

    posted 8 years ago
    Hi,

    I spent some time around these issues and found out the following

    1. The popup doesn't appear to work - Apparently, firefox for android does not support much of the APIs needed by this extension. (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/manifest.json/browser_action#Browser_compatibility). I have created a bug in bugzilla to support this. (Link - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1393911)

    2. Let's me add URLs but doesn't change behaviour -
    Only the "hostname" part of the URL is expected to be entered in the settings.
    I was able to see links opened in a new tab in android for hackernews, reddit, twitter etc.,
    You can use https://www.freeformatter.com/url-parser-query-string-splitter.html to get the hostname for a given URL.

    3. When I add a few URLs, the space to add a new URL also disappears - This is a bug being worked on by mozilla and was fixed in firefox 57. Link - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1386316

    Since there is nothing much I can do here, I will add warnings for android users about the features missing in android in the addon's description.

    Thanks