Chrome extension; open a link from popup.html in a new tab

Question

I\'m doing a Chrome extension and I got helped in this post here.

My problem now is how to open a new tab of chrome that has as URL the link I clicked in the

Answer 1

A bit more concise and actual syntax in 2020:

document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => {
  const links = document.querySelectorAll("a");

  links.forEach(link => {
    const location = link.getAttribute('href');
    link.addEventListener('click', () => chrome.tabs.create({active: true, url: location}));
  });
});