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I use lasttab in Firefox to get LRU tab switching. Until chrome gets it (and don't make me change my ctrl-tab muscle memory) I'm not switching.

• pasbesoin 16y ago
  It irritates me no end that the Chrome developers refuse to implement this. (And yes, in googling around on the topic, I did come across a blog post by someone involved explaining that this is a design decision on their part and not an oversight.) As a workaround, I'll open a subset of most active tabs in a second window. Tabs I am actively switching between as I'm doing my work. Then, I'll end up closing the Windows in the wrong order and have the subset saved for restoration rather than the full set. Please, Chrome devs, just make MRU tab switching an option, regardless of what you personally think about it. It is a common work occurrence to need to frequently switch between different pairs or small sets of tabs within a larger context of numerous references/tabs. P.S. Extensions can't substitute the behavior, because a security measure -- so stated -- Chrome no longer allows browser default shortcut keys, e.g. Ctrl Tab, to be hooked and overridden. P.P.S. I'd welcome suggestions for good substitutes that use a different key combination or another paradigm that's easy to tolerate.
  • mhansen 16y ago
    Drag the different pairs of tabs together and use Ctrl-Tab + Shift-Ctrl-Tab to switch between them?
    • pasbesoin 16y ago
      I suppose. But I often use the overall tab order to retain a sense of context of the different tabs.
• msg 16y ago
  There's also one called Ctrl-Tab that does the same, and also allows you to alt-Q (or is it Ctrl-Q) to give you thumbnails of all open tabs, then switch to tab by name (Emacs iswitchb style).