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Ctrl-tab to switch from most-to-least recently used tab #913
Ctrl-tab to switch from most-to-least recently used tab #913
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Can I also add my support to this. As others mentioned in #1753, it's also the reason I use Firefox, as AFAIK it's the only browser to do it. |
@microneer Opera and Vivaldi are chromium-based browsers which have this implemented. |
As a new comer from Firefox, I would also love that, really much! |
I think you need to thumbs-up @bsclifton's orignial post to show your support for this issue. |
If this is implemented in Brave, I abandon Opera forever since the next day. |
Just a note: When you implement this, keep CtrlPageUp / CtrlPageDown behavior (switch tabs LEFT/RIGHT, regardless of order of use). Also, I'd recommend to add a setting for people who might still prefer the original CtrlTab behavior, but make the default value be "by-order-of-use", since we already have the other shortcut. |
cc: @rebron for prioritization 😄 |
+1 on this. Especially useful when you have a large number of tabs. Personally miss this option on Brave even from muon days. Would like to see this one implement soon. |
This should be a basic feature before other bells and whistles are added, since it affects usability and really isnt hard to implement. It works perfectly across FF, Opera and Vivaldi (all of which I use), and is a prime reason why I dont use rubbish Chrome. A bit shocked to see that Brave doesnt have this yet :-) |
Fully agree. It would be easy for someone to assume this is just a "personal preference" issue but really, I use Firefox for personal as well as work and having this cabability is an enormous productivity aid that is very difficult to live without in other browsers. For me too, as a keyboard and "many tabs" junkie it's the 1 thing that is keeping me glued to Firefox. |
We need that like yesterday. Brave browser speed is too good to try and go back to Firefox. Come-on guys. |
@Taariqq We'll get this feature in. I have a soft spot for Firefox since we shipped it 15 years ago (anniversary in 3 days!) but do keep using Brave as your daily driver. We have this on our board and see that it's highly requested. |
This is great news! In the meantime I have found an extension that utilizes Ctrl-w and Ctrl-s to achieve the same, so that will do for now. WOW, While I was typing this post I discovered that Ctrl-n is not tied to 'new window'! I can use my emacs keybindings better. I have been trying to decouple Ctrl-n in Firefox w/o any success. |
This bothers me a lot so I had a look. It seems that we need some deep changes in Chromium's keystroke controller. Currently, we can't differentiate a "ctrl + tab, tab" from a sequence of 2 independent ctrl+ tab. There are no ways to know if ctrl was released between 2 tabulations without in-depth changes. |
It's a wontfix on chromium issue tracker (Open in 2008 with 100+ comments..): There is currently an open issue for at least letting extensions implement it properly, but it looks like it won't move forward anytime soon: |
Thanks @guifel and @simonhong! |
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Verified Logged #12149 for missing translation Verified that pressing Ctrl-Tab switches to the most recent tab Verified that holding Ctrl and pressing Tab multiple times, switches between the tabs starting from the most recent Verified that pressing Ctrl-Tab and then pressing Ctrl-Tab again will cycle between the two tabs Verified that pressing Shift-Ctrl-Tab switches to the least recent tab Verified that holding Shift+Ctrl and pressing Tab multiple times, switches between the tabs starting from the least recent Verified for normal window, private window, private window with Tor. Verification passed on
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Verified Verified turning Verified that pressing Ctrl-Tab switches to the most recent tab Verified that holding Ctrl and pressing Tab multiple times, switches between the tabs starting from the most recent Verified that pressing Ctrl-Tab and then pressing Ctrl-Tab again will cycle between the two tabs Verified that pressing Shift-Ctrl-Tab switches to the least recent tab Verified that holding Shift+Ctrl and pressing Tab multiple times, switches between the tabs starting from the least recent |
The feature has been added called "Cycle through the most recently used tabs with Ctrl-Tab" in settings |
Well, thanks for this quite wanted feature!! Just one sad thing on my side: while I would really like to use cycling through the most recent tabs with CtrlTab, I would on the other hand cycling to the left/right tabs with CtrlPageUp/CtrlPageDown, what is no longer possible with the new setting enabled. |
What a life-saver! THANK YOU to all the good people who've made this possible. PS: Why not enable by default? Who wouldn't want this? |
@simeonackermann There is a simple solution for that. With the Keyboard Shortcuts extension you can define shortcuts for a few actions in |
Thanks for this feature. Really a game changer for people to start using this browser. I still don't get why when I activate cycling though tabs with ctrl + tab it changes ctrl pageup and ctrl pagedown's behavior. Is it supposed to work like that? If so, why isn't it better explained in settings then? |
I think it's a bug with the feature implementation unfortunately. Personally I think this feature should be backed out, and take the bug along with it, now that we have Ctrl+Shift+A from upstream Chromium which makes this cycling feature (which I also wanted at first, before the 'Tab Search' feature landed) largely redundant. |
I disagree and want to voice my support of this feature. For me, "Search tabs" is a completely different, complementary feature and is by no means any kind replacement for MRU based tab switching. Moreover, MRU based tab switching is the only reason I use Brave as my main browser. AFAIK, Brave is the only Webkit browser which has this (in my opinion) basic feature. Thank you to those who made it happen! |
It's really not completely different, as the tab listing from the Search function is in MRU order. It does take a couple extra keystrokes so it's not 100% overlap or 100% of the convenience, but the functionality is there; and the Ctrl+Tab MRU in Brave unfortunately comes with this unintended baggage. I would love it if the Ctrl+Tab feature were fixed and then both could be satisfied as I also prefer Ctrl+Tab for MRU switching over Search Tabs, but when one weighs developer time on these things hopefully a wise decision is reached, one way or the other. |
Amazing, thanks! |
Not really, I know Opera and Vivaldi have had it since ever. I don't know about Edge. Alt+Tab is MRU, so Ctrl+Tab should be as well. It's that simple. |
I applaud adding the function to make Ctrl+Tab cycle through tabs by most recent. The function of Ctrl+PageUp/PageDown has been broken by the implementation - it should remain I request the function of Ctrl+PageUp/PageDown is restored to match the documentation while Ctrl+Tab is changeable. I don't understand the following quoted workaround or why it would be suggested without acknowledging it is not the desired, expected or documented functionality. I have only just started using Brave again so maybe the workaround extension suggested by @julien-nc is no longer relevant and now incorporated in Settings > Shortcuts where it states: It states in support.brave.com/.../articles/...keyboard-shortcuts... This currently becomes entirely incorrect if Ctrl+Tab to cycle tabs by recently visited is enabled (also currently affecting more than just Ctrl+Tab which is misleading). It should therefore also be considered in the changes and reference the function that allows changeable behaviour of Ctrl+Tab
I know this is well discussed but might as well be thorough. Thanks and good luck to whoever can make any of this happen, as I'm sure there's a good reason things aren't lining up as requested or documented and thus as expected let alone variously desired. ...
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Carried over from brave/browser-laptop#1753
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