Open multiple links in Chrome at once as new tabs

The reason that the browser extension can do it is because Chrome extensions have access to a special Chrome API, which lets you use:

chrome.windows.create({tabid: n})

where createData has a tabid value greater than any current tab (and you can find the greatest current tabid using chrome.windows.getAll()).

However, in terms of doing it on your page (or anywhere that's not a Chrome extension), that's not possible, since whether or not a new window opens in a new tab is determined entirely by the user's settings.


You can do this in vanilla JavaScript:

<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function open_win() {
    window.open("http://www.java2s.com/")
    window.open("http://www.java2s.com/")
}
</script>
</head>

<body>
<form>
<input type=button value="Open Windows" onclick="open_win()">
</form>
</body>

</html>

Here is a more Chrome-specific implementation (if popup blockers are giving you difficulty): 

var linkArray = []; // your links
for (var i = 0; i < linkArray.length; i++) {
    // will open each link in the current window
    chrome.tabs.create({
        url: linkArray[i]
    });
}

Here is some documentation: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/tabs


The best way to open multiple tabs or windows is by using setTimeout() of 500ms.

window.open("https://facebook.com", "one", windowFeatures);
setTimeout(function(){
  window.open("https://facebook.com", "two", windowFeatures);
}, 500);

User will have to allow popups but I ended up doing this:

function openMultipleTabs(urlsArray){

    urlsArray.forEach(function(url){
        let link     = document.createElement('a');
        link.href    = url;
        link.target  = '_blank';
        link.click();
    });

}

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