A tab switcher menu with thumbnail previews similar to Windows 10 task switcher.
★ Key Features ★
➭ Tabs are in recently used order.
➭ You can use Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab to navigate
the tab list.
➭ You can choose a different keyboard shortcut.
➭ Mouse-only method: Click on the toolbar button and then
click on the desired tab.
➭ You can choose between a menu with or without thumbnails.
➭ It doesn’t modify or interfere with the web page you are viewing
in any way (i.e. no code injection).
➭ The tabs menu pops up INSTANTLY for a fast tab switching.
➭ Works offline. No need for an internet connection.
➭ It does not access or collect your personal data.
★ Tab Thumbnails Switcher is a native extension ★
Tab Thumbnails Switcher brings out the power of Chrome’s native
extensibility to gain essential advantages over regular extensions:
✔ The tab menu is implemented in machine code, which allows it to
pop up instantly without annoying loading delays.
✔ It can redefine Ctrl+Tab shortcut for switching between tabs.
✔ It doesn’t inject code into every page you visit, thus avoiding
sluggish page loads and conserving CPU and memory.
✔ It works on ALL tabs. Either PDF documents, the New Tab
Page, extension pages, Chrome pages, you name it.
Learn more about native extensions and their benefits here:
http://autocontrol.app/native-component
★ System Requirements ★
Being a native extension demands additional development effort to
support each operating system. For this reason, Tab Thumbnails Switcher
is initially supported on:
• Windows XP *
• Windows Vista *
• Windows 7
• Windows 8
• Windows 10
*: Not supported by the Chrome Web Store. You must install from:
http://autocontrol.app/manual-install
★ Permissions ★
When installing you’ll see a message saying that the extension can
“Read your browsing history”.
This is a standard message generated by Chrome. Tab Thumbnails
Switcher does NOT access any personal information.
Please read our privacy policy to learn more:
http://autocontrol.app/privacy-policy
Thank you! The extension works just as I wanted. A little problem though. When a list of many thumbnails appear, I might want to use the up/down arrow keys to move to thumbnails in above/below rows quickly, (just like Alt+Tab in Windows does), but it doesn’t work. The focused thumbnail (with white border) not moving, so I cannot switch to the tab I want.
Installed it just for the most recently used tab switching, works great.
It does the job but I’m a bit worried about result of VirusTotal check of native component:
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/994e14d2bb306607c158c6799e0661c90ee1a480378aca969c9397e4712a4c38/details
And even more there is no way you can uninstall this native component…
love the extension ! is so useful, thank you 🙂
Apple unveiled macOS 11 Big Sur and talked about some of the improvements for Safari. In addition to native extensions, Apple is adding support for web extensions. It’s going to make it much easier to port an existing extension from Chrome – is it possible to add this native extension to safari? or at least working in chrome in macos?
I’ve spent hours trying to get this functionality and this solution is magical 😎
Works great thank you!!, I hope there’s a way to close tab easily from the tab menu, like in Windows Alt-Tab menu where you can click close button.
Excellent!
I’ve found many extensions in order to achieve the effert that is similiar with the windows switch in Windows, and only this one is exactly right!
Hope you can do better and keep improving!
Great extension for ctrl-tab MRU tab order!
But it’s a pity doesn’t work in Yandex Browser (Chromium engine)
Can we change the thumbnail size to make it larger? this would be a great option to make Thumbnails size editable.
Excelente
Sorry guys, great idea but not working for me. I routinely have 50-100 tabs in a browser window at any given time. So far this is only showing me 20 tabs (5 columns x 4 rows).
Am I missing something? Would love to use if it showed all of my tabs, would only need a 10×12 matrix to cover my needs.
hallow, I love it; but i found that the font of the window looks a little fuzzy? can you solve it?
Works like a charm, thank you for the work you’ve put into programming this extension!
Just what I needed!
Once you install the native component, this does just what it says: full ctrl+tab MRU switching with a thumbnail picker (just like alt+tab in Windows). This is exactly what I wanted. Thank you!
Replaced ctrl-tab for switching tabs. I followed instructions to change keyboard shortcut, but that only seemed to add a new shortcut, not remove the old ones. I use ctrl-tab to change tabs all the time and don’t want to lose that functionality. I don’t have the time to track down how to fix this if that is even possible.
The MRU tab switch function is wonderful!
But at the end, it said ‘Safe to remove native windows installer’ or something to the effect. After that it (how to uninstall the native thingamajig) was lost in a black hole. How do I remove it (not the extension, which I love)
The only one Chrome Extension whom natively works with CTRL + Tab AND Shift + CTRL + Tab to switch between a lot of open tabs.
No need to hack something. No need to setup for long minutes. You only need to install this extension and it works right now!
In addition, there is a visual pop-up window of all the open tabs, thanks to which you can quickly choose the one you need 🙂
had been searching for this since years
Super perfect.Was waiting for something like this for a really really really long time
wonderful! just works as expected right out of the box 🙂 great feature awaited for so long! thank you guys!! 😉
It works like a charm 🙂
This is really fast at loading tab thumbnails. One suggestion:
Could you please add a ‘X’ at the top right of each thumbnail, and I can click the ‘X’ to close the tab?
So I don’t have to click the thumbnails first, then move the mouse to the ‘X’ of the tab, or press Ctrl-F4 to close it.
Thanks.