What is Ctrl+Tab MRU?
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'Ctrl+Tab MRU' allows switching through tabs in the order they were visited before. By default this happens by pressing Ctrl+Y for going back in time and Ctrl+Shift+Y for the other way round.
*** IMPORTANT TO KNOW *** Unfortunately Chrome doesn't drectly allow users to set Ctr+Tab as shortcut keys. So I suggest using the following trick to circumvent this: https://superuser.com/a/1326712.
Tab switching also works on special pages (like chrome://), Chrome Web Store URLs, PDFs, XMLs or when the address bar is focused. In this case a temporary tab is opened to show the menu. To directly jump to a tab listed on the switcher menu, click on its title or icon.
Drawbacks:
- At the moment I don't have an idea how to avoid the temporary tab. It's required because I otherwise could not detect the release of the ctrl key (=end of the switching action) on special pages.
- If you release the ctrl key too fast while the temporary tab is loaded I am unable to detect the key-up event, therefore the menu gets stuck. Please hit the ctrl key again to finish switching.
- Recent tab order is not preserved when closing and restoring a window.
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- Useful extension with unique features
- Works well with customized keyboard shortcuts
- Effective in cycling through recently used tabs
- Has comprehensive instructions for functionality
- Valuable functionality not natively provided by Chrome
- Unstable performance and minor glitches
- Does not work reliably on Mac or certain local files
- Inability to override Ctrl+Tab shortcut
- Issues with certain localhost and PDF pages
- Not all open tabs are listed in the menu
- Useful extension with minor glitches
- Not working reliably on Mac
- Issues with local files
- Custom shortcuts improving usability
- Valuable feature absent in default Chrome
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