I have removed Intab from the Chrome Store due to browser security changes that block its functionality.

Once Intab is open, any additional links you click will open directly in Intab. Use the close button or press Escape to hide Intab.

With the Intab extension installed, invoke a Quick View tab by holding down Option + Command (or Windows + Alt for PCs) while clicking a link. Instead of a new browser tab opening, the link will be opened inline.

Help! It's not working

Win + alt + click just downloads the link for me instead of opening Intab.

If you're on Windows, please try restarting Chrome. If that doesn't work, please yell at me over Twitter.

Why Intab?

Tabs are great. I mean, remember life before tabs? How did we survive? But tabs have their shortcomings. Browsing to a new tab breaks the flow of reading. Say your reading something that refers to another article. To read that article, you'd typically have to open in a new tab, read it, then close it. Intab allows you to view those two articles side by side, maintaining context.

Intab is a bit buggy and serves mainly as an interaction experiment to see if the concept of tabs can be improved upon. If you like it or would like to see any improvements, please shoot me an email: iansilber @ gmail dot you-know-the-rest.

Release Notes

v.1.2.1

Bug fixes.

Intab no longer triggers within inputs or textareas.

Intab controls hidden when printing.

Fixes issues with browser history stacking up.

v1.2

Right-click menu let's you access Intab without wrangling your keyboard.

URL Bar at the bottom of Intab gives you the URL of the link for easy copying/sharing.

Navigate to another page using the URL Bar.

Works on some sites that weren't working previously.

All-around more awesome.

v1.1

Once Intab is open, any link you click will be opened with Intab until you close Intab. Less keystrokes baby!

Now works nicely with Facebook, Twitter, and a number of other sites that were previously causing issues.

Close Intab by pressing Esc

Works on infinite scroll sites like Facebook and Never Ending Reddit

Resovled some style conflicts with other sites (specifically sites using .icon- css rules).

Only opens valid http or https URLs.

Stops playing audio/video on close.

Experimental: Open a specific URL with a new keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Opt+N. Don't get used this one, it could change!

Obligatory "minor enhancements and bug fixes"

Contribute

I've put Intab on Github to open it up to contribution. There's lots to do and I don't have the time nor smarts to get it all done. I'd love your help :)

Kind Words from Kind People

Brilliant: view a link without having to open a new tab or window. buff.ly/16G5rYl — Justin Jackson (@mijustin) March 19, 2013

Since I am a tab-aholic, this makes things much worse... or better for me: InTab for Chome bit.ly/WTiNyH via @poss — Francisco Inchauste (@iamFinch) March 19, 2013

You are using a 27" screen with Chrome at full size? Use this plugin to open tabs INTO the current tab. iansilber.com/intab/ — Ivo Mynttinen (@ivomynttinen) March 19, 2013

The game of browser extensions has changed. Your life is now better.jed.mu/NfDZ & jed.mu/NexJ — Justin Edmund (@jedmund) March 19, 2013