Tab Activate
Functionality & UI
New tabs open immediately instead of in the background
Users
50K
Rating
4.0
Reviews
278
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Stable signalFree or hybridMedium-risk permissions
Force Background Tab
Force New Tab Running In Background
Users40KCurrent public install base
Rating3.9Store average score
Reviews258Public review volume
Manifest versionV3Extension platform version
7-day growth0Net users gained this week
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Version2.2.2
ManifestV3
Size666KiB
Languages1English
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Force New Tab Running In Background
!!!Support of all Link/Tab/Flash!!!
Description:
Normally, Each click on a link that wants to open a new tab will ACTIVE THE NEW TAB
Now, After install this extension, the new tab will RUNNING IN BACKGROUND
Feedback: https://github.com/monque/ChromeExtension-ForceBackgroundTab/issues
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Store average score3.9Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text
Synced text average3.6Average computed only from synced review bodies below
Reviews with text172Synced review bodies
Total ratings / reviews258Chrome Web Store public rating/review count
Store average score: 3.9. The bars below are calculated from synced review text only, so they may be empty for extensions that have public ratings but no synced comments yet.
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The extension that should be a setting. I'm glad someone made it.
GOOD
It does what it says, BUT it also changes all your search results to ads. Conclusion, it is good for reducing new tabs opening in the foreground in about the same way that getting visited by an arsonist is good for solving the problem of a creaking floor.
stopped working all of sudden
Thank you for fixing the chrome bug! always a pleasure to make our lives easier.
Thank you for the January 2020 update! Edit April 2025: It hardly works anymore. Now, it will open a new tab in the foreground and might switch back to the previous tab after 0.5 to 2 seconds. A discussion on the developer's GitHub page has stalled: https://github.com/monque/ChromeExtension-ForceBackgroundTab/issues/22
Thank you to the dev for fixing the issue with the new chrome update!
Worked great until the last few weeks. For some reason it's decided to background a tab when I manually open a new blank tab. Something it excluded before.
Hi Yuchen, First of all, thank you very much for creating such a useful extension. Unfortunately, since the last Chrome update, this extension now forces even tabs opened by clicking on the 'New Tab' button in the Tab bar to open in background. Could you please fix this? Thanks.
Recently the functionality changed. Links opened in new tabs are still forced into the background, which is good. However, it used to not force new blank tabs to the background. Suddenly it does now. I prefer to open new tabs (ctrl+T) and begin typing into the address bar immediately, rather than having to move to the new tab first. There are no options to adjust which tabs are forced to the background, so I will be uninstall for now.