Ctrl+Tab MRU Chrome Extension

Switch between tabs in the most recently used order, Chrome on Windows allows you to set Ctrl+Tab as a shortcut.
'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 ***

If you want to set the keyboard shortcuts to Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab you must do this manually in your preferences file (Google doesn't allow to set this key combinations on the Extensions page):

- Install the extension.

- Go to the Extensions page (Menu > More tools > Extensions).

- At the end of the page click on Keyboard shortcuts.

- enter new key combinations for Ctrl+Tab MRU, f.e. Ctrl+A and Ctrl+Shift+A. These will be written to your preferences file.

- Exit from google chrome.

- Now switch to File Explorer and open your preferences file:

-- windows users: C:\Users\<yourUserName>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Preferences

-- Mac users: /Users/<yourUserName>/Library/application support/Google/Chrome/Default/Preferences

-- Ubuntu users: /home/<yourUserName>/.config/chromium/Default/Preferences

- Search for the previously entered keyboard shortcuts inside the preferences file, f.e. Ctrl+A and Ctrl+Shift+A, and replace them with Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab.

- Save and close the file, reopen chrome and the new shortcuts will be working.

big thanks go out to Radek Zyka for this valueable hint!

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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 to 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.

Permissions:

- 'Access your data on all websites': required to draw the tab list on top of the websites' content and to detect PDFs and XMLs.

- 'Access your tabs and browsing activity': required to record tab order, open the temporary tab and to switch to the selected tab.

Updates:

- 0.6

-- tab titles on the switcher popup are now clickable to directly jump to a tab

-- no more need to reload the tabs after initial install

-- added xml viewer support (menu is shown on temporary tab)

- 0.5

-- added frameset support (menu is shown on temporary tab)

- 0.4.2

-- added support for ftp and file:// pages

-- added incognito support

- 0.3.1

-- corrected tab order for tabs opened in the background

-- refined stylesheet

How to install Ctrl+Tab MRU chrome extension in chrome Browser

You can Follow the below Step By Step procedure to install the Ctrl+Tab MRU Chrome Extension to your Chrome Web browser.

• Step 1: Go to the Chrome webstore https://chrome.google.com/webstore or download the extension Ctrl+Tab MRU Chrome Extension Download from https://pluginsaddonsextensions.com
• Step 2: Now search for the Ctrl+Tab MRU in Chrome Webstore Search and click on the search button.
• Step 3: click on the Ctrl+Tab MRU Chrome Extension Link
• Step 4: in the next page click on the Add to Chrome button to Download and Install the Ctrl+Tab MRU extension for your Chrome Web browser .