Alternate Tab Order

Opens new tabs at the end, and snaps back to view the opener tab under certain conditions

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Alternate Tab Order: Enhanced Chrome Tab Management

Alternate Tab Order is a Chrome extension that modifies your browser’s tab functionality to closely replicate pre-2010 Firefox. It sends new tabs to the end of the list, and if closed, the user will be directed back to the previous tab. Helpful for multi-tab browsing, like during news reading or story exploration.

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Extension stats

By: https://techknight.com

Users: 6,000+

1,000

Rating: 4.51

(35)

Version: 1.1.0 (Last updated: 2024-08-10)

Creation date: 2015-02-08

Size: 17.31K

Email: te*****@techknight.com

URLs: Website

Full description: See detailed description

Ranking

# 12,633 ▲ 1,123

Other rankings

#22768 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 638 #61 in tab keyword 77 ▲ 54 #168 in story keyword 19 ▲ 18

Other platforms

Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

User reviews

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Pros

Moves newly opened tabs to the far right of the tab bar as intended
Helps keep tabs organized without manual moving
Works well with Edge, enhancing user experience
Reliable and straightforward functionality without weird permissions

Cons

Disturbs functionality of tab groups, causing ungrouping upon browser restart
No option to open tabs next to current tab
Restored tabs automatically go to the far right, which can be inconvenient
Feature requests for additional customization settings

Most mentioned

Moves new tabs to the far right
Tab groups get disturbed after browser restarts
Desire for settings to override default behavior and keep chronological order

User reviews

Perfect as at time of review and does exactly what I need ie. open new tabs to the far right. Was using a similar ext, SimpleTabOrder but it may be disabled soon due to it not being Manifest v3. This ext is a perfect alternative.

Kilo Sierra, 2025-01-08

It does more or less what it says on the tin. It moves newly opened tabs to the far right of the tab bar. What the extension unfortunately also does is disturb the functionality of tab groups. While you are browsing everything works fine and you can normally group your tabs, but if you close the browser and restart it a while later, all those tabs are ungrouped again and to the left of the group banner.1 I work with tab groups a lot, and this issue makes the extension virtually unusable to me.

Tomás Íosef Pádraig Quinn Ó Laoghaire, 2024-09-29

タブグループ作ってても動くのがこの拡張機能の唯一の存在意義だったのに...＞更新:2024年8月10日

y, 2024-08-10

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Alternate Tab Order does not require any sensitive permissions.

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