Global New Tab Shortcut chrome extension

What is Global New Tab Shortcut?

Global New Tab Shortcut is a keyboard shortcuts extension for chrome. it's a free extension , it has 177 active users since released its first version, it earns an average rating of 4.43 from 7 rated user, last update is 548 days ago.

What’s new in version 1.2.1?

                This allows you to open a new tab from within any application with a keyboard shortcut.

This means that as soon as you think of a search to do or web page to open, you are just one keypress away from doing it.

!!! You MUST select a keyboard shortcut after installing !!!

To use, install the extension and then click on "Keyboard Shortcuts" at the bottom of the extensions page. There, select a shortcut key for "Global New Tab Shortcut" and be sure to change the dropdown to "Global" afterwards.

This extension doesn't add handlers to pages or anything fishy. It uses the built-in Chrome keyboard shortcut handling to create a new tab with the built-in Chrome APIs.

Source is at https://github.com/wmertens/global-chrome-tab            

How to install Global New Tab Shortcut?

You could download the latest version crx file or older version files and install it.

Preview of Global New Tab Shortcut

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Reviews of global new tab shortcut:

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Mark Fulton August 16th, 2016

Thank you! Now that Google has retired the Chrome app launcher this is the next best thing that I've found so far for quickly launcher web searches. http://blog.chromium.org/2016/03/retiring-chrome-app-launcher.html

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