Super Drag — Open Links by Drag Direction
Drag a link up to open in background, drag down to open in foreground. Drag selected text to search it. Automatically off on detected web apps.
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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, with the same up/down logic: up for background, down for foreground. 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 upward → opens a web search in a background tab
- Drag selected text downward → opens a web search in a foreground tab
The extension checks each page against a list of known web apps (Google Docs, Google Sheets, ChatGPT, and similar) plus two page heuristics that mark a page as an application. With the default safety setting, Super Drag turns itself off on those pages.
Settings
| Option | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Super Drag | Off | Enable or disable directional link dragging |
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 up to search in the background (stay reading) or down to jump to the search immediately.
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 (Alt+Click) when you want a quick preview you’ll likely dismiss.
Privacy
Super Drag operates entirely within the browser. Link URLs opened via drag are handled by Chrome’s standard tab-opening mechanisms. Dragging selected text opens a web search in your default search engine, the same as typing the text into the address bar. No interaction data is sent to SuperchargeBrowser. SuperchargeNavigation needs no SuperchargeBrowser account.