Use case example: I have a chrome extension that monitors notifications from a site and click to open it full page automatically. Now when I do something in any tab and there is notification that has come my current tab focus is lost without any control to new tab that gets opend' through extension.

Expected: As a user I want to add setting to retain focus on current active tab itself when new tabs are opened or do it through APIs. 

upendra15@ Could you provide the name or url of the chrome extension which you mentioned in the comment #1 for further triage.

I don't have any published plugin in chrome app store. I have local plugin that I use for self. 
Use case: 
I have a website eg any news site that keeping poping up latest article in their home. My script checks presence of popups with css classname at every interval. Once it finds there exists a popup I trigger a click which opens that news article in new page.

Problem: It opens new tab but focus from anywhere else or other tab gets moved to this newly open'd tab which I want to control.

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here is source code that may help (javascript): 

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Unable to reproduce the issue on Windows 7,Mac 10.12.4 & Ubuntu 14.04 using chrome reportd version-56.0.2924.87, stable-57.0.2987.133 & Canary-59.0.3066.0 as per steps mentioned in comment#0 & comment#6.

User able to control the focus on new tab or retain at current tab & vice versa without any issue.
Could you please check the issue on latest chrome versions (stable/Canary) & if still issue persists,please provide us the  screencast of the issue for better understanding /triaging the issue.

Thanks in advance.

How did you try to reproduce issue? I don't think you tried the way I am saying.

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As I have private chrome plugin I can't share. But issue is clear: Consider there is website that opens tabs or new window automatically in few seconds with click trigger. So what will happen in that case is doesn't matter which page I am browsing my tab focus or window focus is lost and newly open'd tab gets focus. 

I am asking is there is way to "Focus current tab on new tab open" settings? If not, there should be one as I don't want chrome to steal focus when new tab is open'd. 

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