Numerous users have requested this feature for JIRA but it has not - yet - landed on JIRA Cloud (https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-9380)
This is a tiny Chrome extension (less than 30 lines of code) to enable this behaviour - feedback welcome!
Features
- JIRA Cloud (*.atlassian.net)
- Opens external links in a new tab
- Internal links between Atlassian products should not be affected
- Ignores
mailto:links
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