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Tap To Tab by em_te

Double click (or finger tap twice) on any link to open it into a new Tab. Designed for tablets and laptop trackpads, which don't have two buttons on their mouse.

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Designed specifically for touch-screen tablets and laptops with trackpads (as those devices don't have mouses with two buttons) you can now double-click on any link to open it in a new tab.

This extension works similar to the "open link in new tab" option in the browser's popup menu. But this extension is faster, because performing the right-click action without an external mouse is much slower.

You can configure in the settings window to:
  • show the newly opened tab; or open new tab in background
  • Put new tab next to current tab; or put at the end of the tab strip
  • Add any domain name into a blacklist

No longer will you have to hold down the button and wait for the popup menu, or perform complex mouse gestures to accomplish this seemingly common action.

Permissions disclosure:
This extension needs your browsers permission to "Access your data for all websites" because it needs to listen to websites to detect your double-click action.

Please also try my other related extension, Joystick for tablets.
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  • Access your data for all websites
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Version
0.5.3
Size
34.89 KB
Last updated
5 years ago (May 12, 2020)
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Mozilla Public License 2.0
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Release notes for 0.5.3
the double-click time delay is now customizable
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