Super Drag — Open Links by Drag Direction

Super Drag adds directional intent to the most common browsing action: opening a link. Drag a link up and it opens in a background tab — your current page stays in focus. Drag it down and it opens in the foreground — you switch immediately. Drag selected text and it launches a search. No keyboard modifiers, no right-click menus — just the direction of the drag.

How It Works

Super Drag intercepts drag events on links and text selections. The extension determines the drag direction and executes the corresponding action:

• Drag link upward → opens in a new background tab (current tab retains focus)
• Drag link downward → opens in a new foreground tab (switches to the new tab)
• Drag selected text → opens a web search for the selected text in a new tab

The extension monitors the page to detect web apps that use drag-and-drop as part of their own functionality — Google Docs, Google Sheets, ChatGPT, and similar applications. On those pages, Super Drag deactivates itself automatically so it never interferes with the app’s native drag behavior.

Settings

When to Use This

Reading long articles with many links: Drag referenced links upward as you read to queue them in background tabs. When you finish the article, your queue is ready without any interruption to your reading flow.

Research queuing: On a search results page, drag multiple links upward to open them all in the background, then work through them at your own pace.

Text lookup: Select an unfamiliar term, drag it, and search it — faster than copying, opening a new tab, and pasting.

Complement to Glance Peek: Super Drag and Glance Peek cover opposite use cases. Use Super Drag when you want a real tab; use Glance Peek (Shift+Click) when you want a quick preview you’ll likely dismiss. Together, they give you complete control over how every link opens.

Privacy

Super Drag operates entirely within the browser. Link URLs opened via drag are handled by Chrome’s standard tab-opening mechanisms. No URLs, search queries, or interaction patterns are sent to any server.