https://github.com/danielnixon/link-fixer

Restores consistent ctrl+click, shift+click, cmd+click and middle-click behaviour when clicking links.
https://github.com/danielnixon/link-fixer

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Restores consistent ctrl+click, shift+click, cmd+click and middle-click behaviour when clicking links.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/danielnixon/link-fixer
• Owner: danielnixon
• License: mit
• Created: 2018-03-01T10:53:59.000Z (about 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2025-03-30T22:00:37.000Z (about 2 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-09T20:06:55.598Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: browser-extension, chrome-extension, firefox-extension, web-extension
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage:
• Size: 1.42 MB
• Stars: 60
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 8
• Open Issues: 25
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Link Fixer

The default behaviour of ctrl+click, shift+click, cmd+click (on macOS) and middle-click when clicking on links is to open the link in a new tab (or new window in the case of shift).

This behaviour is sometimes [broken by careless developers](https://superuser.com/questions/854797/why-does-ctrl-click-not-open-some-links-in-a-new-tab/).

This add-on restores the default behaviour, ensuring the modifier keys always cause links to open in a new tab (or window).

# Installation

* [Firefox](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/link-fixer/)

* [Chrome](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/link-fixer/mfgoieafikaldiglpkfgifoeigjcifmk)

# A note on the plain JS

Mozilla's [add-on submission process requires submission of source code](https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/publish/source-code-submission/). It's probably an overly strict interpretation of that requirement, but I took it to mean that something like TypeScript (that neverless produces mostly readable, unobfuscated output) would require source code upload and push an add-on into the slow approval lane.

You'll notice this repo doesn't have a *.ts file in sight, and yet achieves [a very high type coverage score](https://github.com/danielnixon/link-fixer/blob/master/package.json#L29-L33) courtesy of [JSDoc types](https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/jsdoc-supported-types.html#type).

I took this as an opportunity to see how far I could push this given the no *.ts constraint.