Switch To New Tabs

[Kenneth Mitton]

Please post here if you find any bugs, or have any ideas for features
you want added to this extension.

[Robthecomputerguy]

I'd just like to thank you for making the plugin, it was the one thing
that drove me nuts about Chrome, and I have a disability that having
to do extra mousing is an impediment for me more than it is for the
average user.

So thank you very, very much! :)

Rob

[Kenneth Mitton]

I'm glad to hear that my plugin helped you.

I really enjoy doing stuff like this, but I'm a little at a loss what other plugins I could make for chrome right now.  Are there any other features you would like that I could look into?

-Ken

[n4...@aol.com]

Thank you for this. I installed it, it's great BUT I reinstalled Chrome and I can not download it again, it says it's installed but it isn't.

[cont...@gmail.com]

Hi guys,

I've been using the "Switch To New Tabs" extension for 8 years and today it seems to be missing. I've tried to reload the extension from market and I received the following error.

There was a problem with the download. Please contact the developer or try again later.

Invalid manifest

What's going on? Can you fix that issue?

Please do something because I miss it.

Thanks

[Kenneth Mitton]

Sorry about that, I'll take a look at it now!

[Kenneth Mitton]

New version should be available again

[cont...@gmail.com]

Thanks for your fast response and intervention.

I think I should wait for a while because the app was not updated on Chrome Web Store. 

Version: 0.2
Updated: June 8, 2011

[Kenneth Mitton]

Interesting, not sure what to say about that. When I search the store using a different account, it properly lists the extension version as 1.0. Let me know if it's still outdated tomorrow, please!

[cont...@gmail.com]

Now it's OK.

Thank you so much.

Version: 1.0

Updated: June 11, 2018 

[Stealthbat N-A]

I have been enjoying this extension for years now and I have discovered a problem with this extension that conflicts with a new feature that chrome has released.

Chrome has a new feature with tabs called "Group Tabs".
Group Tabs allows you to make groups for tabs to better organize them.
You are also able to collapse those groups to save space and they will stay collapsed when you open Chrome again.

However, every time I launch Chrome with this extension enabled, all previously collapsed groups have their groups automatically expanded on launch.

Even if I were to collapse every group before closing chrome, once I open it again, it re-expands them right away.

I have tested every last extension I have in an isolated environment and isolated the problem to this extension alone.
I would very much like to continue using this extension but the current problem makes it hard to do so.

If you could please roll out a fix for this, I would be most grateful.

Thank you in advance. :)

[Nicolas Christin]

Hi, not sure if this group is still active.

In the last few weeks I've noticed that the extension stops receiving chrome.tabs.onCreated events after a while. I'm not sure what causes this, but other extensions that use the same mechanism also display the same behavior. So I'm guessing something broke with a recent Chrome update. Has anybody else experienced this, or is it specific to my setup?

Anyway, I tried moving to a manifest v3, and it seems to be working flawlessly. FWIW, here's my version:

$ cat manifest.json  
{
  ...
  "manifest_version": 3,

  "background": {
    "service_worker": "tabs.js"
  }
}

$ cat tabs.js  
function onTabCreated(newTab) {
   chrome.tabs.update(newTab.id, {active:true});
}
chrome.tabs.onCreated.addListener(onTabCreated)

Regards