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RightLink - 1.3

by Leonid.Borisenko
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Right click for open link in new background tab. Useful for touchpads without middle button.

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More about this extension

Real context menu will be open on right click with Alt or Ctrl button pressed.

This extension was modeled after RightLinks Firefox extension.

PLEASE NOTE: RightLink, like other extensions with content scripts, is disabled on the Chrome Extensions gallery (https://chrome.google.com/extensions) for security reasons. So RightLink will not be working on this site.

Change Log:

! Bind right click event handler only once for page (i.e. Document object). This fix prevents creation of several identical background tabs after right clicking on any link at http://eBay.com.

Older Versions

  1. Version 1.0
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    Right click for open link in new background tab. Useful for touchpads without middle button.

    Change Log:

    None

  2. Version 1.1
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    Right click for open link in new background tab. Useful for touchpads without middle button.

    Change Log:

    + Handle links that have been added to document dynamically (via AJAX or something similar) after loading whole page.

  3. Version 1.1.1
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    Right click for open link in new background tab. Useful for touchpads without middle button.

    Change Log:

  4. Version 1.2
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    Right click for open link in new background tab. Useful for touchpads without middle button.

    Change Log:

    Handle links in all frames of page.

  5. Version 1.3
    Compatible With

    Right click for open link in new background tab. Useful for touchpads without middle button.

    Change Log:

    ! Bind right click event handler only once for page (i.e. Document object). This fix prevents creation of several identical background tabs after right clicking on any link at http://eBay.com.

Reviews

  1. davv says:
    October 24, 2009 at 5:43 am

    very useful on my touchscreen laptop :)

  2. Graeme says:
    October 29, 2009 at 3:27 pm

    Alt-right-click doesn’t work properly. Also, this extension doesn’t work very well in Google Reader.

  3. Graeme says:
    October 31, 2009 at 1:16 pm

    Btw, I’m using Chrome 4.0.223.11

  4. Leonid.Borisenko says:
    October 31, 2009 at 1:59 pm

    Graeme: thanks for reporting bug with handling links in Google Reader. Now RightLink (v1.1) should work with Reader’s links.

    As for Alt-right-click problem: I cannot reproduce any faults with this combination. At my machine RightLink+Alt-right-click shows same Chrome context menu as RightLink+Ctrl-right-click. I assume that Alt-right-click is special combination that intercepted by your window manager. For example, Metacity window manager (which used in Gnome) shows it’s window menu on Alt-right-click (and also on Alt-Space).

  5. brian says:
    November 3, 2009 at 12:24 am

    is there a way to add rightclick to the Omnibox to open links in new tabs?

  6. Leonid.Borisenko says:
    November 3, 2009 at 4:08 pm

    brian: No; at this moment Chrome extension hasn’t access to Omnibox

  7. Sno says:
    November 3, 2009 at 8:54 pm

    This Extension seems to block being able to click “Share” for status’s on facebook, works when disabled and refreshed.

  8. Leonid.Borisenko says:
    November 5, 2009 at 3:12 pm

    Sno: Facebook works inproperly with enabled RightLink because of WebKit (browser engine) bug. This bug was already fixed in WebKit at 27.10.2009. So RightLink 1.1 will stop blocking Facebook’s “Share” button in future, when Google releases Chrome with newer version of WebKit.

    I’ll made (by tomorrow) temporary version of RightLink, which avoids this bug and works with Facebook in current version of Chrome.

    For technical details see: http://code.google.com/p/rightlink/issues/detail?id=1

  9. Leonid.Borisenko says:
    November 6, 2009 at 1:45 pm

    Ok, i upload v1.1.1 which should avoid bug in Chrome and doesn’t blocks Facebook interface elements.

  10. brian says:
    December 13, 2009 at 7:06 am

    1.1.1 doesn’t seem to work for me on https://chrome.google.com/extensions/

  11. Leonid.Borisenko says:
    December 13, 2009 at 2:41 pm

    brian: RightLink, as any other Chrome extension, doesn’t work on site chrome.google.com. It’s not the extension bug, it’s Chrome security policy feature. See http://code.google.com/p/rightlink/issues/detail?id=2

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