Simple collection of chrome extensions focused initially around extending the basic functionality of the chrome browser.
This extension is fairly self explanatory. Pinned tabs are great, but usually you want the tab to start in the background. For users that often open and close the browser, usually the first move when opening the browser is to go to a non pinned tab. Some users have requested this functionality on forums such as here.
This simple app uses a background page to monitor when a new window is opened. If the window has an active pinned tab, the extension activates the first non-pinned tab instead.
Forums contain a number of different ideas to further enhance pinned tabs. I plan to spawn the simple start in non-pinned tab extension to include more options for working with pinned tabs including,
- Start in non-pinned tab
- Focus on the address bar
- Simulate an F6 keypress
- Open all links in a pinned tab in a new tab (preserves pinned tab location)
- Use a content script to wrap links in an [open] call (see here)
- Hide address bar on pinned tabs (minimalistic, can unpin tab to change address)
- May be able to change window type to accomplish this
The plan is also to include an options page for configuring these options. (This is probably obvious to extension developers, but I'm a newbie and am also documenting this for my own purposes.) These are just ideas right now.