Links in PDF should be opened in new background tabs when ctrl + left clicked.

chrome/browser/resources/pdf/pdf.js

Index: chrome/browser/resources/pdf/pdf.js
diff --git a/chrome/browser/resources/pdf/pdf.js b/chrome/browser/resources/pdf/pdf.js
index 2fb87f5dd83c20b6d770b54030f4b7d16409090c..bb7118e9083e741bb0ccdc4b4671973b3844c911 100644
--- a/chrome/browser/resources/pdf/pdf.js
+++ b/chrome/browser/resources/pdf/pdf.js
@@ -56,14 +56,14 @@ function onNavigateInCurrentTab(isInTab, isSourceFileUrl, url) {
 }
 
 /**
- * Called when navigation happens in the new tab.
- * @param {string} url The url to be opened in the new tab.
+ * Called when navigation happens in the new background tab.
+ * @param {string} url The url to be opened in the new background tab.
  */
-function onNavigateInNewTab(url) {
+function onNavigateInNewBackgroundTab(url) {
   // Prefer the tabs API because it guarantees we can just open a new tab.
   // window.open doesn't have this guarantee.
   if (chrome.tabs)
-    chrome.tabs.create({url: url});
+    chrome.tabs.create({url: url, active: false});
   else
     window.open(url);

[jaepark, 2016/07/14 22:52:39]

I wasn't able to find a way to create a new background tab without using
chrome.tabs. Any ideas? 

[Lei Zhang, 2016/07/14 22:57:52]

I think this is just best effort.

[jaepark, 2016/07/15 00:23:56]

Acknowledged.

 }
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ function PDFViewer(browserApi) {
                                   onNavigateInCurrentTab.bind(undefined,
                                                               isInTab,
                                                               isSourceFileUrl),
-                                  onNavigateInNewTab);
+                                  onNavigateInNewBackgroundTab);
   this.viewportScroller_ =
       new ViewportScroller(this.viewport_, this.plugin_, window);