The extension shows you a popup with last active tabs when you press its shortcut (Alt + Y by default). You cycle through them by holding Alt and pressing Y. By releasing the Alt key you switch to the chosen tab. This is like switching between apps in Windows (Alt + Tab) and in macOS (Cmd + Tab).
Also, when you close an active tab, you will be placed to the previously active one. It is more helpful than the default Chrome’s behaviour, which activates the nearest tab.
You can delegate default switching between tabs by pressing Ctrl + Tab to the extension, see how https://github.com/dvdvdmt/popup-tab-switcher#replace-default-tab-switching-behaviour
NOTE: The extension tries to render its popup on the page wherever it is possible, but there are cases where it can’t do that:
* Chrome’s web store pages. The extension doesn’t work here.
* Special Chrome tabs such as Settings, New tab, History, etc. In this case the extension tries to switch a user from a special tab to a previous tab without showing a popup.
* The page has no focus (a user searches on the page, focused on address bar, etc.). In this case the extension shows its popup and starts a timer by the end of which it will switch a user to the selected tab.
* Files pages (URL starts with file:///). The extension can’t work on such pages without a special permission which you can turn on in Extensions > Popup Tab Switcher (Details) > Allow access to file URLs.
Source code on GitHub https://github.com/dvdvdmt/popup-tab-switcher
Actually quite good. But what bothers me is that whenever you click on it, the options menu always opens and the rest is then displayed directly in the middle of the screen. And there is no German translation.
The extension is really cool. But I noticed that when the list pop up we cannot select the tab using the mouse. Moving the mouse makes it go the tab highlighted in the list. Do you see what i mean ?
Very convenient
add plz option: “Switch to previously active tab in ACTIVE window”
thx
Actually i wanna give a 4.5 rating, as pressing the shortcut will first open the last opened page rather than open the popup. Popup will show only after the first navigation.
This extension is awesome! ctrl+tab is so bad! I love the visual way to switch between tabs! Please add the alt+tab feature of pressing alt+delete to delete a tab. Love your work!
concise, beautiful and useful~ 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 five stars!
It could use more funtions but still fantastic to move in the browser!
This extension realy helped me
Pretty useful for those who opens many tabs.
Good
Its great !!!… Anyone who want to change the shortcut, visit chrome://extensions/shortcuts and change as your needs ! Dont blame the dev for that Alt+Y stuff. Works very fine without any lag.
I really like this extension, the only thing I would like adding to it is the ability to change the hotkey. Add that and it would be 6 stars
OK
cool
This functionality should be default to chrome!!!
excellent chrome extension
it’s great and does its work perfectly.
alt+y only switches me to the last active tab.
Please do make support for Chrome OS, I’ll rated it 5 once available
edit: it does work well with chrome os with 3 seconds ticker!
Exactly what I needed!
Better than before!
C’est bien mais il pourrait avoir plus de fonctionnaliter
Worked really well. Replaced an old extension i used to use for tab switching. Set it to alt+q and i’m golden.
I’ve been looking for an extension like this for ages. I don’t know why it’s not a setting in Chrome.
I find it very convenient to be able to tab through the open tabs in the order I used them in, instead of the order they are placed in Chrome.
I just installed it but I think I’ll be using it all the time.
Thanks!