GM.openInTab

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Description

This API method opens the specified URL in a new background tab. Foreground loading may be globally overridden by setting the Mozilla preference browser.tabs.loadInBackground to false in about:config.

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Syntax

GM_openInTab( url )

Value: Function

Returns: undefined

Compatibility: Greasemonkey 0.5b+

Parameters

Properties
url

• All properties are optional except url.

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Properties

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url

Value: String

Usage: url = "http://www.greasespot.net/";

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Examples

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Notes

Referrer Issue

Opening webpages by invoking this method may not be the ideal choice, because this method doesn't save the referring page, which makes webservers think that you are calling a page only by it's URL, and not from the webpage it was on. In the cases where it doesn't work, one may use window.open(url) instead, which is similar in that it opens a new tab, but it keeps the referrer and switches to the tab immediately.

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