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Open in new tab by Ramkumar K R

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  • by Carlin, 6 years ago
    It's almost as simple as can be, but I wish it opened the tabs in the background, respecting the setting I have in my Firefox options.
  • by Firefox user 12155035, 6 years ago
  • by Firefox user 13487987, 6 years ago
  • by Firefox user 13173279, 6 years ago
    It works, but still can't open history in new tab
  • by WRCS-UK, 6 years ago
  • by Firefox user 14114989, 7 years ago
    Does not work.

    Developer response

    posted 7 years ago
    Hi,

    Can you please provide more information such as the website you were trying to use, browser version etc., ?
  • 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 GaryH, 7 years ago
    Doesn't work at all. I entered 16 specific sites from my list of bookmarks, and this add-on does not open a new tab for any of them. I am, unfortunately, on FF 57.2.
  • 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 GeorgeA, 7 years ago
    Hi, thank you for all your work with the Addon.

    However, even though I added a "*" for the Hostname..... I was sad to see that this did not then extend to bookmarks. I would so love to open bookmarks as well as everything else, in a new tab. I've no idea why Mozilla don't think this is important.

    Sadly though, adding "*" does not have this effect, and the page you are currently reading, still get's spoiled by the bookmark link you've just clicked on, when it would be so much better if it opened a new tab.

    Can this be done? Thanks though.
  • by Latheos, 7 years ago
    This is a reasonable workaround for the old option available from legacy TabMixPlus, but there are some sites that I don't want this enabled, like banking websites. Is there any plan in the future to have a n exclusion list for this extension? Or is there a way to set it up to do something like "all except for x"?
  • by csx, 7 years ago
    This is very useful, especially with the * wildcard. :-) Maybe that should be a switchable default option.

    Update:
    I wanted to open bookmarks always in new tabs, didn't realize there's a config option for this. Setting "browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInTabs" seems to do the trick for me. (Now why isn't this a visible option in the config UI?)

    (Earlier version of this comment asked for this extension to support this. Not needed, obviously!)
  • by showens, 7 years ago
    Needs an option to open the new tab next to the current tab.
  • by glibglob, 7 years ago
    hey there, i know things are limited now but i have a feature request. i have * set so all links open in new tab. i was wondering if these could be implemented.
    options
    1) white icon
    2) open in background
    3) open at end of tabs

    thanks

    Developer response

    posted 7 years ago
    Hi,

    I spent some time on your suggestions and for possible workarounds if available

    1. white icon - It is not difficult to have the user select a white background in the icon from settings. I have created a issue on my github repository to keep a track on this.
    Link - https://github.com/ramkumar-kr/open-in-new-tab/issues/2

    2. open in background - 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.

    3. open at the end of tabs - This is also possible using the tabs API and as I said in 2(b), it will take a long time for me to have this feature.

    Thanks,
  • by Firefox user 12708137, 7 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,
  • by Mirko, 7 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 7 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, 7 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 7 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
  • by Rob C, 7 years ago
    Works fine as stated. I would suggest to implement an "ALWAYS open in new tab" option with, maybe, a list of URLs not to open in a new tab (i.e. the opposite of what the extension is doing at the moment).

    I must admit that enabling it for the most-visited URLs may actually be enough, it's too early to tell, but I have grown accustomed to this behaviour thanks to TabMixPlus - I *hate* having to use the middle mous button to open in a new tab.

    Helpful extension!

    Developer response

    posted 7 years ago
    Hi,
    Thanks a lot for trying out the extension.
    I thought about your suggestion on "never open in new tab" and felt that it would be better if there was a separate extension which does the job.

    Can you help me by providing some examples where you don't want sites to open a new tab? Surprisingly, I haven't come across any sites apart from amazon (which opens links in new tab in a product listing page)

    Thanks,
    Ramkumar K R