Anchrd Tabs - Open Next to Current

About

Chrome puts every new tab at the end of the strip. Anchrd Tabs fixes that.

Set exactly where new tabs open, independently for each way you open them:

- Link clicks (middle-click, Ctrl+click, target=_blank) - open right of the current tab by default
- Blank new tab (Ctrl+T, the + button) - independently configurable
- Reopened tabs (Ctrl+Shift+T) - independently configurable

Each trigger can be set to: Right of current, Left of current, End of strip, Beginning of strip, or Chrome default.

Extra controls, all optional:

- Focus when opening: decide whether new link-click or blank tabs open in the foreground or background. Useful if you want to queue up links without losing your place.

- After closing a tab, activate: choose which tab gets focus next: the left neighbour, right neighbour, the tab that opened the closed one (the opener), the last tab you used before this one, or Chrome's default.

- Join opener's tab group: tabs opened from a link inside a grouped tab automatically join that group.

Prevent duplicate tabs: if you middle-click a link that is already open somewhere in the window, Anchrd Tabs switches to the existing tab instead of opening a second one.

How it works

Anchrd Tabs runs entirely as a Chrome service worker. It has no access to page content - it only reads tab metadata (position, URL, group membership) to decide where to place new tabs. All settings are saved to Chrome Sync, so your preferences follow you across devices.

Privacy

- No data is collected, stored externally, or transmitted anywhere.
- No analytics, no telemetry, no third-party libraries.
- No host permissions - Anchrd Tabs never touches the content of any web page.
- The only permissions declared are: `tabs`, `storage`, `tabGroups`, and `sessions` - each used directly for the features described above.

Full privacy policy: https://griffentek.github.io/anchrd/privacy

**Known limitations**
- Ctrl+N (new window) is not intercepted - Chrome does not expose enough information for extensions to reliably classify that trigger.
- After a Chrome service worker restart (which Chrome triggers automatically), the "last used" tab history resets and degrades gracefully to Chrome's default until you switch tabs a few times.
- Incognito mode: not enabled by default. You can allow it in the extension's details page at chrome://extensions.