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I just finished up a simple Hacker News extension for Google Chrome. It allows you to view the front-page stories as well as submit your current tab. Let me kno

• acangiano 17y ago
  Nice job. I find it particularly useful when I want to open up a bunch of links I'm interested in without the need to right click.
  • sparky 17y ago
    Ctrl+Click (open in new tab) and Shift+Click (open in new window) work well too, if I'm understanding you correctly. If not, my apologies :)
    • acangiano 17y ago
      You understood me correctly. However, ctrl+click still involves two input devices. :)
      • dmnd 17y ago
        If you have a scroll wheel on your mouse, middle-click opens a link in a new tab using only a single input device.
        • messel 17y ago
          The things you learn about peripherals here. I've been right click new tabbing for years.
          • ximeng 17y ago
            You can set up laptop touchpads to have a middle-click zone for one tap opening of new tabs too.
          • statictype 17y ago
            You can also middle-click on a tab to close it. Works in both Chrome and Firefox.
        • Hexstream 17y ago
          Simultaneous left+right click counts as middle click for me on Ubuntu, I'm not sure if it's like that everywhere. So maybe you don't even need a scroll wheel.
  • adam_albrecht 17y ago
    I'm just trying it out in Windows for the first time (on my work PC) and I realize that it works a little better on my Mac. On the mac version of Chrome, when you click on a link within the extension popup, it opens up a new tab in the background and leaves the popup open. But in the Windows version, the popup closes every time you click a link. That's annoying.... I'll look into it later.