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.

Extension stats

By: brandon
Users: 244 ▼ -7
Rating: 4.92 (13)
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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Extension 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

Pretty much essential to make chrome usable.
by David Riebenbauer, 2024-09-27

Update 2024-08-18 Chrome is bitching about "This extension may soon no longer be supported". Any plans to migrate the extension to manifest v3 or whatever is needed to keep it running? ------ 2018-06-11 I LOVE IT! I just found out that it accepts decimal values for the Delay!! 0.5 sec worked best for me. Great for guys like me who step quickly through the tabs and dont want to wait for the sorting. :) UPDATE: After 5 years this is still the first extension I add whenever I get hands on a vanilla browser. Never had an issue. I hope this extension continues to work. Or companies understand that MRU (Most Recently Used) Features are great. I guess some UX Experts are still not convinced.
by Günther Bosch, 2024-08-24

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, 2024-01-26
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Most Recent Used Tab Stack does not require any sensitive permissions.

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