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Recent Tabs

by JasonSavard.com

v4.3 Updated Oct 29, 2025 123KiB
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★ 3.60
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Description

Just like using Alt+Tab for Windows except now for your browser tabs. Use Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+Q or Ctrl+`(~) or assign your own shortcut key for swapping back and forth between your last viewed tabs.
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Reviews (122 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2025-09-16
Alexandra Steinhilber

It simply does not the job, when you use the recent tab shortcut 2 times, the second time it does nothing, I would like to be able to switch between 2 tabs with this extension and it's simply not possible. I think when you switch to recent tab the historic is not updated, but it's not just that, because we would expect in that case that using the shortcut a second time, you would go to the second last visited place, bit it simply does nothing. Also, many times, the menu with all tabs get stuck on the screen, instead of vanishing, it's really annoying, sometimes you even have to close the page because even the "close" button doesn't work. But on general, it's never doing what we need, I think it has not been tested properly, people use many more than just one "last tab", we use it successively doing many things, there are many interaction with the history, this should be taken into account, better implemented and tested in real situations.

★☆☆☆☆2025-08-18
JCDenton Alex Melyon

Useless

★☆☆☆☆2025-03-12
Pete Bragansa

Complete garbage. Please just take down this software if it doesn't work, okay? Stop wasting people's time.

★☆☆☆☆2024-07-03
Daniel

It only works periodically, as the reviewer above me has pointed out. More frustrating than not having the extension at all, to be honest.

★☆☆☆☆2024-05-16
Serghei Carpov

1) Doesn't work on Ubuntu 23.10 + Chrome 125.0.6422.60 (64-bit) 2) Work around for set Ctrl + Tab (Developer could do something like "Choose one of most commonly used shortcust OR set you're custom shortcut") 3) Developer's webpage is amazing (billion ads per pixel :) )

★☆☆☆☆2024-03-17
Benyamin Limanto

Sadly it's broken in bing.com... I don't know what the cause but the div element seems not found only on bing.com

★☆☆☆☆2023-12-18
Benjamin

Keyboard shortcuts never work. In a pretty old version of the extension, it was always working consistently.

★☆☆☆☆2023-06-12
Bob Myers

Cannot agree with randomly popping up new pages asking for money. Hard no to that.

★☆☆☆☆2023-03-06
dan smith

Nothing happens when I press the shortcut key assigned to Usage #2. I get this error in the console: background.js:124 Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'windowId') at background.js:124:37 at Array.filter (<anonymous>) at background.js:123:31

★☆☆☆☆2021-09-09
Benjamin Smith

This extension does not work well. I am using chrome 93. The hotkey to switch among recent tabs often just doesn't work (the tab list doesn't come up and it doesn't switch to a different tab). And when it does work, half the time it doesn't correctly switch the the most recent tab - I press the hotkey once and it skips over many recent tabs.

★☆☆☆☆2021-05-30
Hristo Kolev

Worked awesome for years. now it's unusable

★☆☆☆☆2021-05-16
Michal Poremba

Why after update it needs extensive permission "read and change all your data on websites you visit" ?

★☆☆☆☆2021-05-04
Will Ashley

You broke the extension. It has some severely wonky behavior recently. I only use it for the "developer" setting, AKA going back and forth between the last two recent tabs. I literally cannot predict where it's going to go most of the time I activate it. Sometimes I will have literally just two tabs open, and click on one, then on the other, then activate the extension thinking it should take me back, and it just does nothing. Add one more tab and it gets utterly unusable. The extension can't seem to keep track of the last visited tab, and does it count using the extension as "visiting" a tab? God this is such a trainwreck. Pull this extension until you fix it.

★☆☆☆☆2021-04-18
David Kind

I love this extension, HOWEVER, the permissions it asks for are not reasonable. You're gambling big time if you install this.

★☆☆☆☆2020-11-13
Rikza Mudhofar

not working in chrome 86

★☆☆☆☆2019-12-30
Lexa Noy

Tried multiple times to make it work on multiple Win 10 computers, reloaded all tabs and unstalled it and reinstalled it and assigned various keys...does not

★☆☆☆☆2019-11-10
Gilad Barner

The extension was nice and worked and all, but after something like a whole year (!) of suffering from HARD LAGGING PROBLEMS IN GOOGLE DOCS (!), which was only solved by going incognito, I finally found that this extension was the culprit! Typing and moving the cursor would lag and take time to complete in all docs. Using version 3.0.2.2. Removed it now... I have no idea why this extension caused the problems in Google Docs. Sorry, but this was really really really driving me crazy. Maybe if you fix it it would be cool...

★☆☆☆☆2019-08-11
Thiago A.

Does not work (MacOS Mojave, Chrome 76)

★☆☆☆☆2019-08-09
system-data “Developers” system-data

simply DOES NOT WORK!

★☆☆☆☆2019-05-29
Florian George

I'm sorry, but it doesn't work for me and specifying the shortcuts or other important details in the Options page itself would be more helpful.

★☆☆☆☆2019-05-28
Guille Netsuite

simply not working for me. No matter the restarting or reloading the tabs, setting different shortcuts, whatever... just didnt work.

★☆☆☆☆2019-02-23
Samet baskıcı

does not work for me.

★☆☆☆☆2018-12-03
Ryan Hart

Option 2 not working on Chrome 70 on Windows 10.

★☆☆☆☆2018-10-19
Kendon Black

Doesn't work at all. Windows 10 and current version of Chrome.

★☆☆☆☆2018-10-13
Noam Silvy

Loved it until when I discovered it was causing a massive lag when I use input on a website (espacially on Google Doc). It uses all the processors' power !!

★☆☆☆☆2018-09-07
Vladimir Sizikov

Doesn't seem to be working in Chrome 69. I got no pop-ups and no switching between the tabs, and I tried multiple shortcuts.

★☆☆☆☆2018-08-12
Tom v work

not working

★☆☆☆☆2018-04-18
Samuel Beltran

Indeed... it looks like new browser versions and/or OS are not supported. What a shame, looks like it did what I was looking for.

★☆☆☆☆2018-04-05
Michael Whit

Doesn't work.

★☆☆☆☆2018-03-21
Joe Grenda

As you can see from a ton of comments, this does not work anymore. Please take this off the store if it's not longer functional and the developer won't update it anymore.

★☆☆☆☆2018-02-17
Jesse Perrigo

This extension used to work a long time ago. Hasn't worked for a long while. Seems like the developer stopped supporting it, as made evident of the multitude of reviews similar to mine. I browsed the forums on the developers website and when people complain about "Option 2" method not working, developer just responds with, "Try using Option 1." If you're not going to support your work, take it off the Google Chrome extensions listings.

★☆☆☆☆2017-12-25
Einude Eindude

Doesn't work. Wasted my time.

★☆☆☆☆2017-11-10
Dougal Scott

Doesn't work for me onWindows with Chrome v62.0.3202.89. Shortcut set in extensions to toggle last 2 tabs works, but I wanted the 2nd usage to toggle between tabs, but list never displays.

★☆☆☆☆2017-11-06
Sid Sen

This doesnt work for most of the webpages

★☆☆☆☆2017-07-27
Tomasz W

No matter how hard I try, it doesn't work with the cntrl key (+ whatever). Didn't work with Shift either.

★☆☆☆☆2017-04-22
Bubushki Ikhsubub

doesn't register Command key on MacOS - useless for Mac users

★☆☆☆☆2017-03-22
Hunain Kapadia

Used up alot of memory.

★☆☆☆☆2017-02-04
S SS

HORRIBLE!! FALSE ADVERTISING !!! DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME !!! DESERVES ZERO STARS !!!! Contrary to this developers overview wherein he states that Ctrl+Tab can be set to cycle through the most recently used (MRU) tabs, IT DOES NOT WORK IN CHROME Version 56.0.2924.87 (64-bit) !! When I wrote to Jason, he wrote back saying, "(... uh ... gee ... uh ... ) It appears that chrome has since disallowed that key combination, except it still works for me probably because I set it a while ago." THANKS JASON FOR WASTING MY TIME !!! THANKS JASON FOR YOUR FALSE ADVERTISING !!!

★☆☆☆☆2016-12-25
Justin Cram

Its slowing down my browser to a halt! no thank you dude.

★☆☆☆☆2016-11-23
D J

Devs seem to be pretty dumb. On macOS, if you try to assign shortcut for usage #2 they give you error messages that simply are wrong/windows specific. If you want to assign ctrl+w for example they tell you "Key conflict: [CTRL+W] always triggers "Close the current tab" before your action." But this is simply plain wrong, ctrl+w does nothing on macOS. It might be the keystroke for Windows, but in macOS the keystroke for closing tabs is COMMAND+W, NOT CTRL+W. So this is pretty useless for macOS users, since you get wrong error messages. Devs did a really bad job here.

★☆☆☆☆2016-10-14
AZgo 666

Can't set the shortcut to Ctrl-Tab... LOL Should set for other keys than everywhere else? Nope. How can I rate to zero?

★☆☆☆☆2016-07-21
Will Tam

does almost freezes typing in gmail.

★☆☆☆☆2016-06-09
Joshua

This plug-in made editing in Google Doc very very sloooow, to some point even unusable! And the CPU usage became very high. I had to disable my plug-ins one by one and found this out!

★☆☆☆☆2016-04-30
Neil Landers

For some reason, this just doesn't work consistently on my installation of chrome. I would hit ctrl+` and it would work the first time, but then it would work very sporadically. I tried restarting chrome, i tried a different shortcut. I really wanted this to work because the developer seems pretty down to earth, but sadly it doesn't work for me.

★☆☆☆☆2016-04-30
Reinis Ivanovs

A very incomplete implementation of MRU switching; needed browser restart before it started working.

★☆☆☆☆2016-04-28
Andrew Meyer

Doesn't work at all on tabs which don't have focus when they're first loaded. If I Middle click on a link, for example, to open it in a new tab, I won't be able to use this extension on that page.

★☆☆☆☆2016-01-21
Martin Klosi

I loved it for a while, and then i found out that it caused my gmail on mac to be extremely slow. i have no idea what's the connection, but i did some extensive testing where i disabled each extension one-by-one and i found that this was the cause.

★☆☆☆☆2015-10-19
Robert Claypool

Does what CTRL-Tab already does. Maybe a nice feature to map switching between tabs to another key combo. Told me it wanted to reload all my tabs on install

★☆☆☆☆2015-07-10
Sunjay Dixit

Created very long typing lag in Gmail and Google Docs.

★☆☆☆☆2015-01-29
Gal Moshitch

I've had two problems with this extension: 1) In some cases it stopped working and I had to re-enable it from the extensions menu in order to get it working 2) It slowed down editing on gmail and google docs. This was very annoying, after a while it was hard to edit. I don't know what this extension does to cause such a problem...

Permissions (3)

Permissions

scripting Can inject scripts into web pages storage Can store data locally in your browser tabs Can see your open tabs and their URLs

Details

Version 4.3
Updated Oct 29, 2025
Size 123KiB
First Seen Mar 31, 2026