Opens external links in a new tab

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Version
1.0
Update
August 21, 2015
Size
28.99KiB
Developer
Category
Users
951
Rating
2.66667 ★
Manifest Version
2
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English
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Opens external links in a new tab Extension

This small extension converts all external links to be opened in a new tab.

This simple, but useful functionality was inspired by some famous collaboration web sites where by default external links are opened in the same window and it cannot be changed.
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "name": "Opens external links in a new tab", "version": "1.0", "manifest_version": 2, "description": "Opens external links in a new tab", "icons": { "16": "icons/icon16.png", "48": "icons/icon48.png", "128": "icons/icon128.png" }, "default_locale": "en", "content_scripts": [ { "matches": [ "http://*/*",\t\t"https://*/*" ], "js": [ "src/inject/targetFixer.js" ] } ]}
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Kitamura (ID: 00000038308db75a) Voted 1 ★ - Updated 09/22/2023 Doesn't work

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John Wellborn (ID: 00000039798805c8) Voted 1 ★ - Updated 12/25/2022 ...doesn't work - back to the drawing board

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Broni Synowiec (ID: 0000006645b21437) Voted 3 ★ - Updated 09/21/2022 It stopped working. Left clicking on a link doesn't do anything

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Tom Perry (ID: 000000cae481bfb2) Voted 3 ★ - Updated 08/11/2019 It's worked perfectly for a long time, but it just started popping new tabs on little javascript commands such as a collapse menu or selecting next month on a calendar drop-down.

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Angela Destro (ID: 000000495ef9e358) Voted 1 ★ - Updated 11/29/2018 Worked great fro about a month and then it quit working.