Makes switching between tabs more convenient.

Latest Version

Version
2024.2
Update
July 21, 2024
Size
249KiB
Developer
Category
Users
10,000+
Rating
4.41525 ★
Manifest Version
3
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English
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Permissions
ActiveTab
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Scripting
Storage
Tabs
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Popup Tab Switcher Extension

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
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "manifest_version": 3, "version": "2024.2", "name": "Popup Tab Switcher", "description": "Makes switching between tabs more convenient.", "permissions": [ "activeTab", "favicon", "scripting", "storage", "tabs" ], "host_permissions": [ "file:///*" ], "web_accessible_resources": [ { "resources": [ "/_favicon/*" ], "matches": [ "" ] } ], "background": { "service_worker": "background.js" }, "action": { "default_icon": { "16": "images/icon-16.png", "24": "images/icon-24.png", "32": "images/icon-32.png", "48": "images/icon-48.png", "128": "images/icon-128.png" }, "default_title": "Popup tab switcher: Settings", "default_popup": "settings/index.html" }, "commands": { "next": { "suggested_key": { "default": "Alt+Y" }, "description": "Open recent tabs list. Select next" }, "previous": { "suggested_key": { "default": "Alt+Shift+Y" }, "description": "Open recent tabs list. Select previous" } }, "icons": { "16": "images/icon-16.png", "24": "images/icon-24.png", "32": "images/icon-32.png", "48": "images/icon-48.png", "128": "images/icon-128.png" }}
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User reviews

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Foot (ID: 000000522eb45944) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 09/29/2023 This is awesome. Open previously active tab is so useful.

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Vladimir Sedlar (ID: 000000c0de01639a) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 09/02/2023 All in all the extension is great. It does what it intends to do perfectly and greatly improves my experience using chrome. The only thing missing is the ability to remap the trigger key.

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Jason Pollock (ID: 000000e6820ceefc) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 08/14/2023 I've been looking for this functionality forever. The only thing keeping me from moving to Brave full time.

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m m (ID: 0000008385bcf435) Voted 4 ★ - Updated 07/17/2023 Great extension but I have 1 issue / question , if the maximum number of tabs is 5 for example and I press alt+y , it goes down to the next option and then the next one again until it loops again after 5 clicks Can it go to the 6th tab if I click again? thanks in advance :)

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jiri vesely (ID: 0000000a886c192f) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 05/19/2023 OMG it really works now! Brilliant!!! Chrome devs can't even implement cycling recent tabs by 2023... This addon is miracle! Who made this is genius!!! Chrome such anti user $@!# I don't understand how anyone can even do anything, there is still no really good addons for managing tabs and stuff like that, only barely starting to come up... Like if it was something niche, but this is really basic like you would expect browsers to have that... There are even studies about tab overload... browsers UI didn't change basically since 1999... Chrome devs IQ -100, this addon dev IQ 145!!! I don't know honestly what i would do without this addon, if you are researching tons of stuff, it is easily generate lots of tabs, ability to switch to recent tabs is invaluable. I would increase count to like 10, or custom amount chosen by user, but 6 is something i can definitely work with. Praise to you, glory to you! Really can't thank you enough for this! Hopefully it won't stop working at some point etc. Geez that is really terrifying thought!!! Don't recommend changing default hotkeys or messing with anything, all those addons were really buggy, i am just so glad it works :)