Switching through Most Recently Used

[Raaghav Manivel (Raaghav-m)]

I use the opera browser primarily because I simply love the Most Recently Used tab switching when you press Ctrl+Tab.And recently tried switching to browseros ,and it is amazing.

But in BrowserOs too,the same Ctrl+Tab does tab switching by sequence,and I actually find no purpose for this.Now I would really like to see a feature where the Ctrl+Tab would be cycling through MRUs,or atleast giving an option for the users to choose between the two!!

[Stephen Karl Larroque (lrq3000)]

You can get the same feature with extensions. There are lots, but the one I end up using all the time because it is very fast and reliable is QuickTabs (and it's opensource): https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/quick-tabs/jnjfeinjfmenlddahdjdmgpbokiacbbb and https://github.com/babyman/quick-tabs-chrome-extension

[Raaghav Manivel (Raaghav-m)]

But that is so not comfortable and makes it messy.Take Opera for example,cycling through tabs is so smooth with a kind of animation and stuff,thinking about trying to do the same for browseros too.Any idea on where I should start?

[Nikhil (shadowfax92)]

Totally get it — MRU Ctrl+Tab is one of those things that feels wrong once you're used to it. It's not how BrowserOS does it natively today (we follow Chromium's in-order behavior), and I don't have a native MRU toggle to point you at right now.

Stephen Karl Larroque (@lrq3000)'s suggestion is the right call in the meantime — QuickTabs is a solid, fast, open-source way to get exactly that MRU behavior, so I'd start there: https://github.com/babyman/quick-tabs-chrome-extension

I'll note the request though — a built-in "Ctrl+Tab = MRU" option is a small, reasonable thing to offer, and you're not the only one who'd want it. Thanks Stephen Karl Larroque (@lrq3000) for the pointer. Closing since there's a clean working solution, but the request is noted.