Tab Activate

It suddenly stopped working

Doesn't work on Chrome 142. Opens links in the same tab.

Does not work on Edge 141.0.3537.99

Enabling this extension will cause Google Chrome to attempt to load all tabs when it is restarted. As a result, Google Chrome will be unresponsive. The only available option is to forcibly close the application. If you attempt to force quit Google Chrome, you will find that you cannot disable or remove the extension. This is because the extension will behave the same the next time you start it. The extension does work as it claims, it is not a good extension for users who have many tabs open all the time. I disabled all extensions installed in Google chrome and enabled them one by one and found that it is this extension that is the cause. For users who only have a few tabs open.

Does not work on my version of Chrome which is the latest version.

Doesn't work with Vivaldi browser (tested with 5.3.2679.55). It opens a new tab but it stays blank. I'm currently using "Open Tabs In Foreground 1.0.4" which works a treat, but has been recently marked as "This extension violates the Chrome Web Store policy". It is why I have been trying your extension, but with no luck :(

Not working in Version Chrome 79.0.3945.79 (Official Build) (64-bit). Is this going to be fixed?

Doesn't do what google help section says. I wanted to just click a link in a search page to open and go to a new tab.

Does not work. Does nothing.

Doesn't work. It looks like some people have more success than others. It didn't work for me, didn't change anything, still opens up the links in the same tap. Bad extension,

It works then it stops then you go back it won't work reset it still won't work reinstall works then go back a few hours later and it stops working again.

It does not work

I find "TabsPlus" better. You have an option to make your tab in background or in foreground.

This app is amazing! It does what developers say it's supposed to do almost all the time except I sometimes confuse almost with nonemost but it does work great as much needed arrowed icon that sits neatly in upper right corner of my webpage.

Why does this have to read all the data from websites I visit?

no work.....

Google searches will load slooooooooooooooooooooooooowly if it is running

Doesn't work - you have to mess about pressing ctrl + shift on bookmarks.

It didn't work as advertised. After the first attempt I saved my browser sessions and shut chrome down and restarted. No luck. New tabs stayed in the background.

Doesn't work by me.

Why does this extension need to "Access your data on all websites"? Why isn't there a link to the author of this extension? Just wondering if this a legit extension.

I made a new extension based on this one: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tab-activate-v2/anpjffgglpjkiiaabhmhihckcghknmbp It's exactly the same extension but it will prevent focusing tabs when Chrome starts which will prevent loading every tabs in memory. Enjoy!

If any site already has link functionality, which should open a new page in a new window, then the extension works. If you click on the link yourself with the mouse wheel, the new page opens in the background. The problem appeared after one of the Google Chrome updates. One of the reasons why I abandoned Google Chrome. the guys are very stubborn.

THE problem with this extension, is that it destroys the action of "New Tab at End 3000" and of "Tab Position Option". It switch well to the new Tab, but forces it to be next to to current one, so this extension is useless for me if this behavior is not corrected. Two extensions that work well for me are : "Switch to New Tab" and "Tab to Front v2". They can be combined with the two first extensions I mentioned.

Edit: Seems very buggy now in newer versions of chrome (currently at v126.x). I have to keep manually disabling/enabling the extension in order to get it to start properly opening new tabs. --- Extremely simple. Works better than "Switch To New Tab" which I've used for years. I'm a developer, so I audited the code and can verify that it's extremely simple and doesn't do anything with it's access. In fact, it really doesn't need the requested permissions, because pressing shift when clicking opens in a new window anyway, so it has no practical effect anymore. That's why I reduced this by 1 star. It requires permissions it doesn't really actually need (at least not anymore). The author should update this!

This extension worked fine until the latest Chrome update. It still works on links, but it does not work as expected on bookmarks. The author has been notified, but has not yet come up with a fix. Frustrated I found an alternative that does not have this problem. Tabs to Front v2 Offered by: dougcuk42

It use to work great before the chrome 79 update. Unfortunately, now it's broken. Please fix it Google!

It worked ok when I first installed it. Stopped working on day 2

Quite simple. IT DOESN'T WORK. I want a new tab to open and be the window. This doesn't do that. At all.

Used to like it before the extra permissions requirements, but won't use it now. Why not give the user an option to use it with the old behaviour, so that extra permissions are not required for those who don't want to give them?

What's with the new permissions? You want to change info on sites I visit, and my bookmarks? If you need money, charge for it.

Doesn't activate new tab from bookmark. Don't like giving it permission to read and change all my web pages and bookmarks.

At first it functioned as advertised and I was very pleased. But for some reason I can't understand, it has stopped working. New tabs are opening in the background. I have tried removing this extension, and closing chrome, reopening it and Starting TabActivate again, but it hasn't worked. I am so disappointed.

I used to love this extension. It's still pretty good, but in recent months, it's opening the new tab twice (two new tabs). This has become pretty annoying.

Doesn't work on the Coinbase website.

As previous reviewers have said, the extension does not work when clicking on links in the Favourites/Bookmarks Bar which are the most used links! Useful, but not what it really promised.

I use tab activate all the time. Recently it stopped activating new tabs when I select a link from my favorites in chrome. It works from a web page just fine but won't activate a link from the bookmark tabs. Very frustrating. Why did it change?

It just stopped working today. Will leave installed for a day or two and see if it regains function, otherwise will switch to one of the similar apps.

I was happy to use it for a year or so. But now it stopped working (12-2019). Such a shame to have to find another one of these.

On one PC it works as advertised. [When I click the wheel on a bookmark, it opens a new tab and jumps to that tab.] But on my laptop it stopped working. Reinstall did not fix it. Reinstall Chrome did not fix it. Now if I click the wheel on a bookmark while pressing shift, the desired behavior works. If I don't press shift, I get the new tab, but have to select it.

Does not work for middle click on home page button. Otherwise fine. Ctrl + Shift does the same without extension.

When closing a tab it doesn't return you to the tab you came from, but instead to the one to the right. "Tabs to the Front" does.

Somehow it forces the tab to move next to the previous tab even if another addon tries to overwrite this behavior. I.e. when I set it to open new ctrl+click tab to the end, I can't make it to also activate - this results in the tab swapping back to the right-from-previous-tab in a split second after moving to the end of the list. Would appreciate if you fix it.

A little slow in switching. Please make it immediate

I loved it alot before. Now it's constantly crashing which I then have to close chrome and open it up again. WTF is going on with chrome and firefox?! The extensions are now being blocked or not able to be used. FN browsers. Gonna have to go back to IE. :(

Would be great if bookmarks could be opened in foreground tab too. Currently, if you Cmd+Click a bookmark it still opens in the background.

I do not want to click Shift. could i have an option by simple click to activate the new tab?

I was really excited to get this. It worked for me for links within a page, but not for bookmarks. I switched to the "Tabs to the Front" extension, which seems to work for both.

Would be nice if it would work on bookmarks as well without having to hold down ctrl + shift. :-(