Google Chrome new tab behavior change - google-chrome

I want to change the behavior "New Tabs" are opened in google chrome. What I want is whenever I open new tab in chrome the newly opened tab does not start loading itself until I switch to that tab. Is there a extension for a functionality like this? Please inform me.

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I want to create a "Chrome app" to open Gmail in a separate windows Chrome instance on my Mac.
The method for doing this is well documented - https://support.google.com/chrome_webstore/answer/3060053?hl=en-GB
In Chrome, you go to the three dots for Settings > More Tools > Create Shortcut and then tick "Open as new window" when you name the shortcut.
However, when I click on the resulting Gmail icon, it opens in Gmail back in the main Chrome browser window, not a separate app window.
I checked mine and noticed the same behavior so I just went and recreated the shortcut for a new instance. Tried it and it works in its own window/app. Deleted the old one.
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Chrome extension Open homepage in new tab

I created a simple chrome extension. When user clicks on it, It will open a website in a new tab. My question is, I want my extension to open a new tab with given URL every time when user opens chrome browser.
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Chrome incognito mode : config url

I would like to configure my Chrome so that when i open a new tab in incognito mode (ctrl shift N) it open a new tab and automatically go to an URL, instead of the empty tab.
Is there a way or an add-on to do that?
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There is an easy way to automatically change to incognito if you try and access certain URLs, which you could then bookmark so when you click them it opens incognite? You can use Ghost incognito for this, just make sure you enable the app for use in incognito mode. You then go to the url and press the ghost icon.
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Automatically open Chrome Dev Tools with target='_blank' link?

When you click a target='_blank' link, it naturally opens a new tab in Google Chrome. For particular sites, I need to use the Chrome Developer Tools to examine the http requests for any new tabs that are opened.
Whenever you have Chrome Dev Tools open on your current page and then click a link that opens a new tab, Chrome Dev Tools are not opened on the new page by default. Opening Chrome Dev Tools at this point is too late because the tools do not capture the http requests for the page.
Also, in many cases, these new tabs go through a series of redirects before reaching the final page, so I cannot simply reload the page after opening Chrome Dev Tools.
The only workaround I can think of is, in the case that the site I'm working on is on a local development server, I can temporarily change the link from target='_blank' to target='_self', but this is unrealistic for a site with thousands of links or for a site that I have no control over the code.
Is it possible to set Chrome Dev Tools to automatically open with every new tab (opened either manually or via target='_blank'?
I'm not sure as of which Chrome version this changed, but if you click on the Settings wheel on dev tools:
You'll see a Global section with a checkmark for "Auto-Open DevTools for popups", which works for opening target="_blank" links with a devtools window:
It's possible to auto open devtools for all the new tabs instead of just target = _blank. When launching google chrome, pass the flag --auto-open-devtools-for-tabs. It enables launching of devtools for all the windows created automatically.
For linux
google-chrome --auto-open-devtools-for-tabs
For Mac
open -a "Google Chrome" --args --auto-open-devtools-for-tabs
You can only open DevTools window via UI action or keyboard shortcut. There is no way to do this automatically.

Google Chrome extension installed popup

While installing the Google extensions form chrome web store it shows some popup like "Google Chrome extension is now installed".
I want similarly, while login I need to show the login popup.
Please suggest me on this.
You can create either a browser action or a page action popup. You can change popup html dynamically to make it look completely different depending on the situation but you can't open it programmatically (desktop notifications could be used for alerts).