Google Reader is a web application that I use everyday to read my RSS feeds. I like to use keyboard shortcuts to navigate around the feeds instead of using a mouse - when you have a long river flow of RSS feed items, pressing a key is easier than scrolling on the mouse continuously. On Google Reader, you can press character "v" to open the feed item link. By default, if it's opened in a new tab, it will change the focus to the newly opened tab. I found that annoying because usually, I prefer to open all new links while going through the feed and then go through the opened links as a bunch. I looked around on the net and found a partial solution on Lifehacker that suggested to change the tab opening setting to force it opening in background through "about:config". But this changes the behaviour of tab opening globally inside Firefox, e.g. if an external program like Thunderbird open a new tab for a new link in Firefox, it will be loaded in background. So I created a Greasemonkey script so that when you press 'v' in Google Reader, the link will be opened in background. To install it:

1. Install Greasemonkey addon
2. Restart Firefox
3. Click here to install the script.

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