Most Recent Used Tab Stack

Most Recent Used Tab Stack

Moves your most recent tab to the front (or back) of your stack. View options for update log. Works with pinned tabs.

What is Most Recent Used Tab Stack?
Most Recent Used Tab Stack is a Chrome extension that allows you to move your most recently used tab to the front (or back) of your stack. It supports the new API, works with pinned tabs, and enables Ctrl+tab to function in a most recently used order. Update log options are available as well. With features like right to left support, working with multiple windows, and simplicity in its code, this extension enhances your browsing experience.
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By: brandon
Users: 248 ▼ -1
Rating: 4.92 (12)
Version: 1.5 (Last updated: 2021-06-04)
Creation date: 2018-02-07
Risk impact: Very low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
Size: 16.16K
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Summary

This extension moves your most recently used (MRU) tab to the front or back. Allowing Ctrl+tab to work in most recently used order.

This is an update to https://goo.gl/F0pGhZ to support the new api. Also works with pinned tabs.

1.5 - Simpler Code, fix to sometimes send the tab to the back. 1.4 - Fix to support chrome bug while tab.query is broken. 1.3 - Right to left support. 1.2 - Removed more permissions. Now doesn't need anything additional to function. 1.1 - Working with multiple windows now. Removed some unneeded permissions.

User reviews
If you're looking for a solution to make CTRL+TAB observe the MRU order, this is what you need. All the other extensions to achieve this will take you down the rabbit hole of custom key bindings, because Chrome does not allow you to re-assign CTRL+TAB. This works around that mess by re-ordering the tabs (instead of hi-jacking the key binding) and works beautifully. Thank-you Brandon!
by Craig Williams Craig Williams, 2024-01-26

I don't understand why more people don't use this extension. It does what it says, which is life changing for my mess of tabs.
by Gary Williams Gary Williams, 2022-08-09

This extension is (cyber) life-changing, for me! I had been using it for several years under the simple name, "Tab Stack," unless I am confused. I acquired a new MacBook Pro a year or so ago and mostly neglected the new machine although I did notice that my most recently used tabs were not sliding to the left. I only tolerated this because of the occasional use of the machine. I have finally embraced this extra 1.5 lbs of kit and started carrying the Pro machine and was maddened by the disappearance of this feature. Today, I got it sorted (Chrome, myself, and the tabs). I gather that we got a renaming somewhere along the line, perhaps in adjusting to Chrome updates. Anyway, IT IS BACK! I cannot imagine why the world has not swarmed to this and Google paid Brandon about $25 million to incorporate it in standard Chrome. I remember the day I first got it...I was only looking for something to allow me to toggle between tabs, as I had done in the Windows world, ALL THE TIME. For the first five minutes, I thought that the whole sliding thing was, well, weird. And then, **EUREKA** ...weird and wonderful! Thanks so much, Brandon.
by Ed Cottingham Ed Cottingham, 2018-07-29
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