Reviews for Open in new tab
Open in new tab by Ramkumar K R
Review by Firefox user 12708137
Rated 3 out of 5
by Firefox user 12708137, 7 years agoHi, 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?
¿Por qué no tiene opción de abrir links en segundo plano?
Developer response
posted 7 years agoHi,
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,
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,