
The only Chrome extension I know of that offers a facsimile of this - without requiring the unnecessarily broad Read and change all your data on the websites you visit permission and that works with tabs into which extensions can't inject code, like Chrome Webstore pages - is QuicKey (which I wrote). Release ctrl to switch to the selected tab.Press and release tab repeatedly to select older tabs in the menu.Press ctrl tab but then release just tab.Select an open tab from a menu using the keyboard.There are two features enabled by Firefox's ctrl tab shortcut that Chrome doesn't yet offer: It should start back up automatically when you reboot your computer. Don't forget to double-click the script to run it. This will allow you to use Ctrl+ Tab to switch between tabs with MRU ordering in Chrome. This remaps Ctrl+ Tab and Ctrl+ Shift+ Tab to Ctrl+ Q and Ctrl+ Shift+ Q, respectively, when Chrome is the currently selected Window. #IfWinActive, ahk_exe chrome.exe If currently using Chrome Configure it to use Ctrl-Q, or change the key below. Use this with a decent MRU tab switching extension, like txt extension): Fix for Chrome's lack of MRU tab switching. in a new text file located at C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup and named tabswitch.ahk, with no. Then, put the following text in an AutoHotkey script in your startup folder, at %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\tabswitch.ahk (e.g.
#Mac shortcut for open tab next to current tab chrome install#
If you don't already have AutoHotkey, first download and install it from its website. Now we need to set things up so that Ctrl+ Tab triggers the key combination you previously set. Unfortunately, Chrome doesn't let you bind Ctrl+ Tab as a keyboard shortcut, so instead choose a combo that Chrome does let you select, like Ctrl+ Q for "Switch to older tab" and Ctrl+ Shift+ Q for "Switch to newer tab".

Go to chrome://extensions/, scroll down to the bottom of the page, click "Keyboard shortcuts", and find the shortcuts for the extension you selected. Next, you need to bind the hotkeys for your selected extension to a key combination.

It's not perfect, but it's the best one I could find.

After trying a few different such extensions, I recommend Ctrl+Tab MRU. Complete solution for setting up Ctrl+ Tab to use MRU switching on Windows:įirst download an MRU extension for Chrome.
