Is Force Background Tab safe?

Clean risk

Opens new tabs in the background instead of switching to them automatically.

This extension changes links that open new tabs so the newly opened tab stays in the background. It supports link, tab, and Flash-triggered new tabs, and includes rule management so users can set whether a site opens in the background or not. Its options use Chrome storage and can sync with the user’s Google account.

Yuchen WangChrome Web Store
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Who publishes it

Yuchen Wang - 1 other listing from the same operator, none carrying a finding

What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.

Same store account

1 other listing published from this account, 7k+ users between them, none of them carrying a finding.

AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.

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Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed Force Background Tab contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.

  • Googlewidely used

    Force Background Tab sends data to Google. Named as a recipient by 195 other extensions we have analysed.

Updated 15 October 2026gidlfommnbibbmegmgajdbikelkdcmcl