---
title: "Right Click Opens Link in a Background Tab – Chrome extension stats, history and permissions"
description: "3,000 users, rated 4.04 by 25 people. Version 1.5, updated 2025-03-20. Requests 1 permission."
url: "https://extensiontracker.com/extension/njboaameemdigbgpphlidpdcdjmkhfjm"
---

# Right Click Opens Link in a Background Tab

Live in the Chrome Web Store.

- Users: 3,000
- Rating: 4.04 from 25 ratings
- Last checked: 2026-11-09 07:58 UTC
- Users gained in 7 days: +1,000
- Users gained in 30 days: No change (+0.0%)
- Rank by users: #12,533 of 292,131 live extensions
- Rank in Functionality & UI: #401 of 11,702

## The listing

What the Chrome Web Store shows, as of the last check.

Summary from the listing:

> Right clicking a link opens the link in a new background tab.

- Extension ID: `njboaameemdigbgpphlidpdcdjmkhfjm`
- Developer: [Etheryte](https://extensiontracker.com/developer/u9c02cbcc839d88ad23b21e67b230b178)
- Enhanced Safe Browsing: Trusted ([what this means](https://extensiontracker.com/enhanced-safe-browsing))
- Category: [Make Chrome Yours › Functionality & UI](https://extensiontracker.com/category/make_chrome_yours/functionality)
- First published: 2023-01-04
- Last updated: 2025-03-20
- Version: `1.5`
- Size: 27.04 KiB
- Minimum Chrome: 88
- Languages (1): English
- Support page: `https://github.com/Etheryte/right-click-opens-link-in-a-background-tab/issues`
- Chrome Web Store: <https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/right-click-opens-link-in/njboaameemdigbgpphlidpdcdjmkhfjm>
- View its code or download CRX: <https://crxpeek.com/extension/njboaameemdigbgpphlidpdcdjmkhfjm>
- Search Google for the ID: <https://www.google.com/search?q=%22njboaameemdigbgpphlidpdcdjmkhfjm%22&tbs=li:1>

## Users over time

One row per check, newest first, as shown on the Chrome Web Store.

| Checked | Users | Rating | Ratings |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| 2026-11-09 | 3,000 | 4.04 | 25 |
| 2026-11-02 | 2,000 | 4.08 | 26 |
| 2026-10-27 | 3,000 | 4.08 | 26 |
| 2026-10-20 | 3,000 | 4.08 | 26 |
| 2026-10-13 | 3,000 | 4.08 | 26 |
| 2026-10-07 | 3,000 | 4.08 | 26 |
| 2026-09-30 | 3,000 | 4.08 | 26 |
| 2026-09-27 | 3,000 | 4.08 | 26 |

## What changed

Every change found on a check, newest first.

No changes found since tracking began on 2026-09-27.

## Developer history

Moves to another publisher account and new contact emails, newest first.

No move to another account and no new contact email since tracking began on 2026-09-27.

We know contact emails only by a keyed hash, so they're never shown. Recent changes: [Account and contact changes](https://extensiontracker.com/owners/).

## What it can access

From the extension's manifest, in plain language.

**Every website:** it can read and change your data on all the sites you visit.

### Sites where it runs scripts

- `<all_urls>`: Every website

### Browser features

- `tabs`: Read the addresses and titles of your tabs

## About this data

Collected from the extension's public Chrome Web Store listing. It's checked every week, because it has 1,000 or more users, and again whenever a new version appears. Last checked 2026-11-09 07:58 UTC; next check around 2026-11-16.

How the data is collected: <https://extensiontracker.com/methodology>.

## Cite this page

Extension Tracker. “Right Click Opens Link in a Background Tab” (njboaameemdigbgpphlidpdcdjmkhfjm). Chrome Web Store data, last checked 2026-11-09. https://extensiontracker.com/extension/njboaameemdigbgpphlidpdcdjmkhfjm. Accessed 2026-11-13.

```bibtex
@misc{extensiontracker_njboaameemdigbgpphlidpdcdjmkhfjm,
  title   = {Right Click Opens Link in a Background Tab (njboaameemdigbgpphlidpdcdjmkhfjm)},
  author  = {{Extension Tracker}},
  year    = {2026},
  note    = {Chrome Web Store data, last checked 2026-11-09},
  url     = {https://extensiontracker.com/extension/njboaameemdigbgpphlidpdcdjmkhfjm},
  urldate = {2026-11-13}
}
```

---

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