Next Tab

Tracking since Apr 22, 2026.

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• May 9, 2026
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  Next Tab turns text selection into action. Select text on any page, right-click, and open any URL with that text injected — search engines, log viewers, API tools, admin panels, dashboards, or anything with a URL.
  
  **Why Next Tab?**
  Tired of extensions that paywall basic features or add bloat you don't need? Next Tab does one thing well: custom right-click links. It's free and always will be.
  
  **Features:**
  - Add any URL with %s as the selected text placeholder — not just search engines
  - Organise links into groups (submenus like QA, Prod, Dev)
  - Define global variables ({{QA_HOST}}, {{PROD_HOST}}) to reuse across URLs — change once, update everywhere
  - Enable/disable individual links without deleting them
  - Drag to reorder your context menu
  - Clone links and variables for quick duplication
  - Export/import your full config as JSON — share with teammates via Slack, email, or a GitHub gist
  - Import configs from other context menu search extensions
  - Syncs across your Chrome instances automatically
  - Respects your system dark mode
  
  **Built for developers and power users:**
  Select an error ID, right-click, open it in your log viewer. Select a user ID, jump to the admin panel. Select a trace ID, open it in your dashboards. Define variables like QA_HOST and PROD_HOST to switch environments without editing every URL. Share the JSON config with your team — they just swap the variable values.
  
  **Privacy:**
  Next Tab stores your config in Chrome's built-in sync storage. No accounts, no servers, no tracking. Your data stays yours.

  Next Tab turns text selection into action. Select text on any page, right-click, and open any URL with that text injected — search engines, log viewers, API tools, admin panels, dashboards, or anything with a URL.
  
  **Why Next Tab?**
  Tired of extensions that paywall basic features or add bloat you don't need? Next Tab does one thing well: custom right-click links. It's free and always will be.
  
  **Features:**
  - Add any URL with %s as the selected text placeholder — not just search engines
  - Organise links into groups (submenus like QA, Prod, Dev)
  - Define global variables ({{QA_HOST}}, {{PROD_HOST}}) to reuse across URLs — change once, update everywhere
  - Enable/disable individual links without deleting them
  - Drag to reorder your context menu
  - Clone links and variables for quick duplication
  - Export/import your full config as JSON — share with teammates via Slack, email, or a GitHub gist
  - Import configs from other context menu search extensions
  - Syncs across your Chrome instances automatically
  - Respects your system dark mode
  
  **Built for developers and power users:**
  Select an error ID, right-click, open it in your log viewer. Select a user ID, jump to the admin panel. Select a trace ID, open it in your dashboards. Define variables like QA_HOST and PROD_HOST to switch environments without editing every URL. Share the JSON config with your team — they just swap the variable values.
  
  **Privacy:**
  Next Tab stores your config in Chrome's built-in sync storage. No accounts, no servers, no tracking. Your data stays yours.
  
  # Changelog
  
  ## 1.0.1
  - Import JSON now auto-detects Context Menu Search format — no need to use the separate CMS import button. A message confirms the conversion and how many items were found.
  - URLs with multiple %s placeholders now replace all of them with the selected text, not just the first.

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Permissions

contextMenusstorageactiveTab

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