A browser extension called \'Open New Tab For Developers\'

As a developer, I often browse websites like Medium.com and Hacker News, but the links on these sites open in the same tab. After reading an article, I have to navigate back to the main site, which negatively impacts the user experience. Opening links in a new tab would be much better.

Therefore, I created a browser plugin called "Open New Tab."

Why did I have to write a new plugin? Because I searched for and used some existing plugins, but they mostly implemented a general logic. This general logic is simple and indeed works for most websites. However, it is not enough; merely writing general logic does not work for some specific websites. The functionality of this kind of plugin is quite similar to ad-blocking plugins, which need to handle the specific DOM structure of particular websites.

Take Medium, for example. Its tag's href attribute is not a complete URL but a strange path string. The complete URL is actually in the data-href attribute of an ancestor element. So for this site, the better approach is to get the complete URL and then open it in a new tab.