● Chrome & Edge extension

Drag a box.
Open every link.
Keep your right-click.

Hold Alt, lasso any set of links, and every unique one opens in a background tab. Unlike the right-drag tools, it never touches your browser's right-click menu.

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Free. One permission (storage). No account, no servers, no tracking.

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The architectural difference

The lasso that never breaks your right-click menu

Grabbit and Linkclump power their right-drag trigger by hijacking the browser's contextmenu event, which silently disables "Copy Link Address" and "Copy Image Address" everywhere, including Gmail. Multi Link Lasso's Alt-drag never touches it. The fix is architectural, not a setting.

Right-drag tools (Grabbit, Linkclump)Right-click broken
Open link in new tab
Save link as…
Copy link address
Copy image address

They cancel contextmenu to detect a right-drag, so the copy items stop working even on a normal right-click.

Multi Link LassoRight-click intact
Open link in new tab
Save link as…
Copy link address ✓
Copy image address ✓

Alt + left-drag is a separate gesture. Your right-click menu behaves exactly as if nothing were installed.

Illustration of menu behavior for comparison.

Free and Pro features

Everything that happens after the click

The category sells a drag gesture. Seven capabilities ship free, forever, in the extension today; four more make up Multi Link Lasso Pro. Every screen below says inside the frame exactly what it is: a real, unmodified capture, or a labeled preview built from the same interface and brand tokens with demo data. Never one presented as the other.

Free forever
Side-by-side comparison: the right-drag tools break Copy Link Address in the right-click menu, Multi Link Lasso keeps it intact Side-by-side comparison, dark theme
Free forever
Real capture of Multi Link Lasso mid-drag over a flight search results page, four unique links highlighted out of six, duplicate and redirect collapsed automatically Real capture of the live lasso drag and dedupe toast, dark theme
Free forever
Real capture of the Multi Link Lasso Settings page: same-site filter, exclude domains, URL pattern, accent colors, and sites turned off Real capture of the Settings page, dark theme
Free forever
Real capture of Multi Link Lasso opening 12 links from a Lisbon stay-comparison page, with the six-second Undo toast visible Real capture of the one-tap Undo toast, dark theme
Pro, $9.99 once
Product preview: a lassoed batch of links opening straight into one named, colored native Chrome tab group Product preview of native tab-group open, dark theme
Pro, $9.99 once
Product preview: save a selection as a named session, save a filter shape as a preset, and a keyboard-only mode with no mouse required Product preview of saved selections, saved filter presets, and keyboard-only mode, dark theme
Free vs. Pro What's live today vs. what Pro unlocks next

Seven capabilities are shipped in the extension right now, free and forever: the Alt-drag lasso; smart dedupe with redirect/tracking unwrap; precision filters; background opening, position, stagger, and reverse order; the per-site off switch; one-tap undo; and plain-text copy (Markdown and comma-separated values (CSV) formats are still unbuilt). Native tab-group open already runs in the code with no purchase path yet; save-a-selection, saved filter presets, and keyboard-only mode are unbuilt. Pro unlocks all four, once they ship, for one payment.

Pro is a one-time $9.99 purchase, not a subscription.

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Three seconds to learn

How it works

1

Hold Alt

Press and hold the Option / Alt key (you can change it to Shift or ⌘ in Settings).

2

Drag a box

Sweep a rectangle over any set of links. A live count shows how many are inside.

3

Let go

Every unique link opens in a background tab. Changed your mind? One tap closes them all.

Where it earns its keep

Where a lasso beats 40 clicks

Opening links one at a time costs more than time. Click, wait, come back, find your place, repeat. Hold Alt and drag a rectangle over what you want instead. A live count shows how many links are inside the box. Release, and the extension unwraps redirector URLs, drops the duplicates, and opens what is left in background tabs.

Sweeping a page of search results

Reading sources one at a time on Google, Bing, or DuckDuckGo breaks the thread of the research. Drag across the whole results page instead. Smart select, on by default, takes the one main link out of each result and skips the thumbnail, the "read more", and the author mention. Redirector links are unwrapped to the real destination across 12 known hosts, including Google, Google News, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Reddit, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Duplicates are matched on scheme, host, path, and query, so the same source caught twice opens once, and your place on the results page never moves.

Comparison shopping across a grid

A results grid mixes the listings you want with sponsored placements and links back into the retailer's own promotional pages. Filter the batch before it opens. Same site only keeps every off-domain advertisement out. The exclude list drops named hosts you never want opened. A regular expression, in include or exclude mode, isolates the URL pattern the real listings share, which on most catalogs is the one thing that separates a product page from everything else on the screen. What opens is the set you meant to compare.

Working a page of profiles

Recruiting and sales work starts on a results page full of profiles, and opening 40 of them in the same second is the kind of burst some sites' rate limiting is built to flag. The stagger setting exists for this: set a delay in milliseconds and the batch opens at that pace on its own. On a site that watches for bursts, a slower batch is the safer default rather than a fallback. Minimum links keeps a stray drag from firing at all, and the per-site off switch turns the lasso off entirely on a site where you would rather click.

Reading documentation with 20 cross-references

A dense reference page can carry a "see also" list longer than the section you came for. Sometimes you want all of it open, and sometimes you only want the addresses. Copy mode gives you the second option: release the lasso and the deduplicated, unwrapped URLs go to the clipboard as plain text, one per line, with no tabs opened at all. Paste the list straight into a document, a ticket, or your notes without hand-copying a single address or stripping a single tracking parameter.

Clearing a newsletter or a link roundup

A roundup is a long page of links wrapped in text you do not want, which makes it the easiest place to catch more than you meant. Two settings cover it. Minimum links tells the extension to ignore any lasso that catches fewer than the number you set, so a small accidental drag does nothing at all. And when a broad drag does catch the footer, undo is one tap: every batch shows a toast with an Undo button for six seconds, and it closes exactly the tabs that lasso opened. Tabs you already had stay untouched.

Precision

Every setting, and what it is for

Opening one tab takes no thought. Opening 40 at once is a different problem: one broad drag across a dense page can launch tabs you did not want, hit a site's rate limits, or bury the tab you were reading. These settings are where the precision lives.

The gesture itself

The trigger starts with a modifier key: Alt, Shift, Command, or Control. Alt is the default and the recommendation on a Mac, where Control is already the right-click. Drag with the left mouse button, which is the default and the safe choice, or switch to the right button for the Linkclump-style gesture, where the context menu is canceled only during an actual drag. So a click never turns into a lasso, the box arms only after the pointer has traveled six pixels. Seven accent colors apply to both the selection rectangle and the toolbar icon.

Where the tabs land

Four settings decide what happens the moment you release. By default links open in the background, so the page you are reading keeps focus. A large batch can go into a new window of its own instead. New tabs appear immediately to the right of the active tab by default, or at the end of the tab strip if you prefer the batch out of the way. Bottom-to-top reverses the order, opening the lowest link on the page first.

Pace and volume

Two settings govern how hard a batch lands. Stagger puts a delay in milliseconds between opens, and it defaults to zero, meaning all at once. Minimum links defaults to one, and a lasso that catches fewer links than the number you set does nothing at all. Together they cover both failure modes: the accidental drag that opens something you never meant to open, and the deliberate batch of 40 that arrives fast enough for a site's rate limiting to notice.

What gets caught

Filtering happens before a single tab opens. Smart select, on by default, takes the one main link out of each search result and skips thumbnails, "read more" links, and embedded mentions. Same site only keeps the batch on the current domain. The exclude list skips named hosts. A regular expression runs in include mode or exclude mode. Two behaviors are always on and are not settings: redirector unwrapping, which follows a search engine or social link to its real destination across 12 known hosts, and deduplication, which matches on scheme, host, path, and query so a destination caught twice opens once.

Turning it off, and getting text instead

Some sites you would simply rather click on, and that needs neither an uninstall nor a settings trip. One toggle in the toolbar popup turns the lasso off on the site you are on, and every disabled site is listed in Settings so nothing stays off by accident. When you want the addresses rather than the pages, switch the action to copy: the selection goes straight to the clipboard as plain text, one URL per line, and no tabs open at all.

How it compares

How it compares

The category is older open-source projects, active web store forks, and one paid tool. Linkclump, the original, was archived in December 2024 with a final issue titled "Linkclump shutting down", and its active fork's 2026 reviews report that it no longer works reliably. Grabbit has roughly 100,000 users, charges $3.99 a month for 300 artificial intelligence (AI) requests that summarize or compare pages, and requests seven browser permissions against Multi Link Lasso's one.

Capability Multi Link Lasso Linkclump Plus Grabbit Snap Links Plus RightClickLinkOpener
Trigger gesture Alt + left-drag (right-drag optional) Right-drag Right-drag Right-drag Alt + left-drag
Right-click menu keeps working Yes No No No Yes
Auto-scroll while you drag No, planned free Yes Not verified Not verified Not verified
One-tap undo of the batch Yes, six seconds No No No No
Per-site off switch Yes No No No No
Filters Same site, exclude list, regular expression Basic include and exclude Basic include and exclude Basic include and exclude None
Leaves your pages unread Always, by design Yes No, reads them for $3.99/mo Yes Yes
Cap on links per drag None None published None published None published 10
Cost Free; Pro $9.99 once Free Free; $3.99/mo for AI Free Free

Two rows go the other way, and they are the two worth knowing about. Linkclump scrolls the page while you drag. Multi Link Lasso does not: there is no scroll code in the content script today, so a single drag reaches only what fits on one screen, which is a real ceiling on a long results page. It is a repeatedly requested feature in the category and it is planned for the free tier, never behind Pro. Grabbit will also summarize and compare the pages it opens, and Multi Link Lasso reads no page content at all. That is the direct consequence of making no network requests: nothing to read the page with, and nowhere to send it.

Competitor details come from a sweep of the Chrome Web Store, Mozilla Add-ons, GitHub, and review aggregators dated 8 July 2026, and from each project's own listing. Install counts and review text move; verify anything decision-grade against the listing itself. Multi Link Lasso is not affiliated with Linkclump, Grabbit, Snap Links Plus, or RightClickLinkOpener.

How it runs

What the lasso reaches

Six things worth knowing before you install it.

Everything in the window, in one drag

A lasso collects the links visible in the window the moment you draw it, so a long page is a handful of quick drags: scroll, drag, scroll again. Drag-to-scroll is next off the bench and lands as a free build.

The page you are actually reading

The collector runs in the page's top frame, which is the list you are looking at and dragging across.

Web links, cleanly

It collects anchors whose address starts with http or https, so a drag over a mixed page picks up the pages you meant and leaves mail links, local file paths and application shortcuts where they are.

Install it in about a minute

Download the package, open the Chrome extensions page with developer mode on, and load it unpacked. Version 0.2.0 is ready to run the moment it loads, with nothing to sign up for.

Chrome and Edge

It runs on the Chromium desktop browsers and uses their own extension interfaces for tabs and local storage, so tab groups and saved lists behave exactly the way the browser already does.

One payment, four Pro features

Native tab-group opening runs in the code today. Save-a-selection, saved filter presets and keyboard-only mode are on the bench behind it, and Pro unlocks all four for a single payment.

Answers

Questions people actually ask

Will this break my right-click menu?

No, and that is the whole reason it exists. Linkclump and Grabbit detect a right-drag by canceling the browser's contextmenu event, which disables "Copy link address" and "Copy image address" across every site, Gmail included. Alt plus left-drag is a separate gesture, so contextmenu is never touched. There is an opt-in right-drag mode in Settings for people who prefer the old gesture, and it cancels the menu only during an actual drag.

What permissions does it want?

One: storage, for the seven free capabilities. That is the entire list a plain install ever needs. Opening and closing tabs the extension itself created needs no tabs permission, so even undo adds nothing. Native tab-group opening sits behind the Pro preview: switching it on there asks for tabGroups as an optional permission, and releases it the moment you switch it off, so nothing outside that preview ever touches tabGroups.

Does it send anything anywhere?

No. The extension makes no network requests of its own. There is no server, no account, no analytics, and no tracking. Everything happens inside the browser, which is also why it cannot read or summarize the pages it opens.

What happens if I lasso 40 links by mistake?

Every batch shows a toast with an Undo button for six seconds, and undo closes exactly the tabs that lasso opened and nothing else. Tabs you already had are untouched. Setting a minimum link count also stops a small stray drag from opening anything in the first place.

Can I get the links out as text instead of tabs?

Yes. Switch the action to copy in Settings. Releasing the lasso then writes the URLs to the clipboard as plain text, one per line, deduplicated and unwrapped to their real destinations, and opens no tabs at all.

Will bulk opening get my account flagged on a site?

Opening a large batch in the same second is the kind of burst some sites' rate limiting is built to catch, and it is a real risk on sites that police it. The stagger setting puts a delay you choose between opens so the batch arrives more gradually, though it reduces the risk rather than eliminating it. On a site you know watches for bursts, use it by default and keep the batches small.

What is free, and what costs money?

Seven capabilities are free forever: the Alt-drag lasso, smart dedupe with redirect unwrapping, the filters, background opening with position and stagger and reverse order, the per-site off switch, one-tap undo, and plain-text copy. Pro is $9.99 paid once, never a subscription, and it covers native tab groups, save-a-selection, saved filter presets, and keyboard-only mode. Nothing that is free today will ever move behind Pro.

How do I install it today?

Download the package, open the Chrome extensions page, turn on developer mode, and load it unpacked. It runs on Chrome and on Edge.

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0servers of ours
0tracking or analytics
0network requests of its own

Open your next 40 tabs in one drag

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