Chrome: Switch to new tab

LiveBrianD asked how to configure Chrome so when you click a link to open it in a new tab, that new tab gets the focus

When you right-click a link in Chrome and select Open link in a new tab -- or if you point to the link and click the wheel rather than one of the buttons -- the browser will open that link in a new tab.

But the browser's focus will remain on the tab you're already in.

Chrome itself offers no way to change this, but Abarth's Tabs to the front extension will make the change. Just install it, and the new tab will come out on top.

To change things back, browse to chrome://extensions/, where you can disable or uninstall this and other extensions.

My thanks to Car54 for offering a solution in the original forum discussion.

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Amorak

Sat 30/10/2010 - 02:00

Reprogramming the scroll wheel is easier than using a plugin if you have a mouse like Logitech's Revolution MX or such. Using Logitech's SetPoint software, each application can have its own set of mouse button settings. For Chrome, IE or FireFox you can set the right and left scroll wheel clicks to Ctrl-Tab and Shift-Ctrl-Tab respectively. Scooting across tabs then becomes instant and ridiculously easy using the scroll wheel. I also reverse the "Back" and "Forward" buttons because the usual "Forward" button is easier to use but "Forward" is used far less often than "Back" is used. I set the button behind the scroll wheel to "F5" so that "Refresh" is reduced to an easy single click without moving the mouse or selecting from a menu. For my email client (Thunderbird) I programmed that same button as "Delete", left scroll click as "Mark All As Read" and the right scroll click as "Home". I have special settings for most every program.

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