Open Selected Links

Tracking since Apr 17, 2026.

Changelog

• Jun 11, 2026
  description

  When viewing a page containing a list of links you want to open, such as a list of references in Wikipedia or a paper, it's convenient to be able to open them all at once rather than opening and dragging one at a time.
  
  This extension adds context menus item for selections to open all the links contained in them in the current window (optionally in a new tab group) or a new window.  
  
  Alternatively, you can bring up the extension's popup menu to choose exactly which links to open (and now, you can also filter the link text with a regular expression!), whether to open them in the current or a new window, and whether to add them to a new or existing tab group. You can also open the tabs "snoozed" to reduce memory footprint prior to reading the tabs.
  
  Finally, you can set up keyboard shortcuts to open selected links with a keystroke.
  
  What's new in Version 1.8.4
  * Fix opening links in a new window from the menu or command
  
  What's new in Version 1.8.3
  * Fix "automatically snooze tabs" option
  
  What's new in Version 1.8.2
  * Add side-by-side mode
  * Multiple-display support
  * Hamburger icon to hide/show the popup config options
  * Filter enhancements
    * Disallow inserting newlines.
    * Don't crash if partially entered regexps are invalid
    * Make the placeholder text come back on deleting all the text
    * Make the filter URLs checkbox actually search both URL and link text
    * Give the filter focus if any keys are pressed

  When viewing a page containing a list of links you want to open, such as a list of references in Wikipedia or a paper, it's convenient to be able to open them all at once rather than opening and dragging one at a time.
  
  This extension adds context menus item for selections to open all the links contained in them in the current window (optionally in a new tab group) or a new window.  
  
  Alternatively, you can bring up the extension's popup menu to choose exactly which links to open (and now, you can also filter the link text with a regular expression!), whether to open them in the current or a new window, and whether to add them to a new or existing tab group. You can also open the tabs "snoozed" to reduce memory footprint prior to reading the tabs.
  
  Finally, you can set up keyboard shortcuts to open selected links with a keystroke.
  
  What's new in Version 1.8.5
  * Add copy links to clipboard (#28)
    * Copy button in popup writes checked URLs (newline-separated) to clipboard
    * Context menu item and keyboard shortcut (`osl_copy`) for copy without opening the popup
  * Add incognito/private window option (#29)
    * "Incognito/private" checkbox in popup; greyed out with a note if user hasn't granted the extension incognito access
    * When opened from an incognito window, the popup checkbox is pre-checked so new windows inherit privacy by default; user can uncheck to escape to a regular window
    * Context menu and keyboard commands respect the saved incognito setting when invoked from a normal window, and stay incognito if invoked from an incognito window
  
  What's new in Version 1.8.4
  * Fix opening links in a new window from the menu or command
  
  What's new in Version 1.8.3
  * Fix "automatically snooze tabs" option
  
  What's new in Version 1.8.2
  * Add side-by-side mode
  * Multiple-display support
  * Hamburger icon to hide/show the popup config options
  * Filter enhancements
    * Disallow inserting newlines.
    * Don't crash if partially entered regexps are invalid
    * Make the placeholder text come back on deleting all the text
    * Make the filter URLs checkbox actually search both URL and link text
    * Give the filter focus if any keys are pressed

• Jun 11, 2026
  permissions

  activeTab, contextMenus, system.display, scripting, storage, tabGroups

  activeTab, clipboardWrite, contextMenus, system.display, scripting, storage, tabGroups

Permissions & access

Permissions

activeTabclipboardWritecontextMenussystem.displayscriptingstoragetabGroups

Host access

None declared

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