SwiftOpen

Tracking since Apr 17, 2026.

Changelog

• Apr 17, 2026
  description

  This extension allows you to drag-select links with your mouse and open multiple links at once in background tabs.
  When selecting items, you can scroll through the page to select more items.
  
  SwiftOpen 1.5.0 (2026-03-17)
  - Added a settings page for batch opening behavior, including open interval, reminder threshold, and reminder preference.
  - Added a custom confirmation dialog for opening many links, with interval input and a remember-my-choice option.
  - Added delayed sequential opening for background tabs instead of opening all selected links at once.
  - Added localization support for the new dialog and settings page.
  - Added new locale packs for Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), French, German, Hindi, Bengali, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Turkish.
  
  
  SwiftOpen 1.4.0 (2026-02-20)
  
  New
  Integrated Chrome’s standard i18n internationalization framework. Added new languages: en, zh_CN, zh_TW.
  
  Changed
  Switched from site-wide pre-injection to on-demand injection using the activeTab + scripting permission model.
  
  Fixed
  Restored the page’s original inline styles (userSelect, cursor) when exiting selection mode to prevent page state pollution.
  Added fallback handling for window blur and page visibility changes (window.blur / visibilitychange) to prevent lingering drag states.
  Optimized drag performance by caching candidate links, enabling selection on infinite scroll pages.

  Description
  
  This extension lets you drag-select links with your mouse and open many links at once in background tabs. While selecting, you can scroll the page to include more items.
  
  SwiftOpen 1.8.1
  
  【Enter】 Open Links
  【Cmd + Enter】 Open in a New Window
  【Cmd + C】【Ctrl + C】 Copy Links to Clipboard
  【ESC】 Exit
  
  SwiftOpen 1.7.0
  
  No instant open on mouse-up: Finish your selection, then press Enter to open links; Esc still exits.
  Multiple selection passes: Drag again to add more links; drag over already selected links to deselect them.
  
  SwiftOpen 1.6.1
  
  Link size filter: New setting to skip links whose on-screen width is below a threshold (pixels). Default 100; set 0 to turn the filter off. Applies to box selection, highlighting, and which URLs open. The value is stored in options; content scripts pick up changes from storage.
  Options & storage: The “open many links” confirmation dialog now saves only the fields you change, so other settings (such as the link-count threshold) are no longer overwritten when you confirm.
  Interval field validation: Fixed type="number" step vs min so values like the default 50 ms and other whole milliseconds from 1–10000 validate correctly on the options page and in the confirmation dialog (step set to 1 ms).

• Apr 17, 2026
  short_description

  Click the extension button, drag a box to open links inside in background tabs.

  Click the extension button, drag to select links, then press Enter to open them in background tabs.

Permissions & access

Permissions

activeTabscriptingstorage

Host access

None declared

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