Heavy Recent Tab Switcher Firefox

Heavy Recent Tab Switcher

Bypass the default 6-tab limit on recent tab switching (Ctrl+Tab). This is a fast, visual grid overlay to switch between dozens of your most recently used tabs.

Features & Capabilities

Heavy Recent Tab Switcher

If you keep dozens of tabs open and rely on cycling through them in recent order, you’ve probably hit a wall: Firefox natively caps its visual Ctrl+Tab menu to just your last 6 tabs. If you go past that, your oldest recent tabs just vanish from the list.

Heavy Recent Tab Switcher completely removes that restriction. It gives you a clean, expansive visual grid overlay that tracks your actual tab history, allowing you to cycle through up to 48 of your most recently used tabs seamlessly without losing your place.

Built purely for keyboard-heavy workflows, developers, and intense multitaskers.

Key Features

  • Expanded Recent History: No more 6-tab bottlenecks. View a generous, multi-row grid of your most recently active tabs that gracefully scrolls if you manage a massive stack.
  • Rapid Alt-Tab Navigation: Hold Alt and tap Q to bring up the grid and cycle forward, or Shift+Q to cycle backward. Releasing the Alt key instantly switches to your highlighted tab.
  • Instant Search Filter (Alt+W): Need to find something even deeper in your history? Tapping Alt+W drops you straight into a search bar that instantly filters through every single open tab in your browser.
  • Quick Mouse Closures: Clean up your workspace on the fly. Middle-clicking any visual card instantly closes that tab without forcing you to switch to it first.
  • Completely Lightweight & Private: Runs entirely locally on your machine with zero background bloat and absolutely no data tracking.

Navigation & Hotkeys Cheatsheet

Key / Gesture Action / Functionality
Alt + Q Opens the recent tab switcher grid
Q Cycle highlight forward to next recent tab (while holding Alt)
Shift + Q Cycle highlight backward to previous recent tab (while holding Alt)
Release Alt Instantly switch to the highlighted tab
Alt + W Focuses the search bar to filter through ALL open tabs
Tab / Shift + Tab Moves visual selection forward/backward across the grid
Standard arrow navigation to move across rows and columns
Enter Open the selected tab
Delete Close the highlighted tab directly from the switcher grid
Middle-Click Close any tab card instantly using your mouse scroll wheel
Escape Dismiss and close the popup menu

User Growth & Download Statistics

Manifest V3 Add-on
By:
Abstracto
Daily users:
2
Version:
1.0.1 Last updated: 2026-07-07
Version code:
6343371
Creation date:
2026-05-21
Risk:
Moderate risk impact High risk likelihood
Permissions:
Size:
428.63KB
Email:
ab*****@gmail.com
URLs:
Website
Full description:
See detailed description
Source:
Firefox Add-ons Store
Data ingested on:
2026-07-13
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Contact the developer

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Developed by:
Abstracto
Firefox Add-ons Store
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/heavy-recent-tab-switcher/
Email:
ab*****@gmail.com
Website:
https://abstracto-x.github.io/abstracto_tales

Permission Change History

2026-07-08: Version 1.0.0 → 1.0.1
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Is Heavy Recent Tab Switcher Safe?

Risk impact
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Heavy Recent Tab Switcher requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details
  • Critical Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
Risk likelihood
Risk likelihood measures the probability that a Firefox add-on may turn malicious. This is determined by the publisher and the Firefox add-on reputation on Firefox Add-ons Store, the amount of time the Firefox add-on has been around, and other signals about the Firefox add-on. Our algorithms are not perfect, and are subject to change as we discover new ways to detect malicious extensions. We recommend that you always exercise caution when installing a Firefox add-on.

Heavy Recent Tab Switcher is recently added, and hasn't been around long enough for us to gather enough data to accurately assess its risk level.

Risk likelihood analysis details
  • High This extension was recently updated in the past month. New updates may not be stable or safe.
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