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Michael_Buchner
Brass Contributor
Oct 28, 2019

Switching between tabs using keyboard shortcut

In Firefox you can switch between two recently used tabs by pressing CTRL-TAB. Would be great to have this feature in Edge Chromium! Currently, CTRL-TAB switches between all open tabs.
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Michael_Buchner
Brass Contributor
Nov 19, 2019

Hi Elliot Kirk, Firefox switches between last two tabs, so I personally would prefer to have the same feature in Edge Chromium as well. You wrote CTRL+Shift - why not making it configurable to have this feature either on CTRL+Shift or CTRL+Tab? Thanks Michael

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alhpa
Brass Contributor
Nov 22, 2019
I don't really think there is a need to make it configurable, as anything other than Ctrl+Tab would be non-standard; one reason for adding this feature is, besides from being extremely useful (I'd go so far and call it "necessary"), is the standard behavior of specifically Ctrl+Tab in other browsers.
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    mattjan
    Copper Contributor
    Dec 18, 2019

    alhpa Chrome and Opera has Ctrl-Tab (and Ctrl-Shft-Tab for reverse) showing all tabs in thumbnails (Chrome) or list with url-icon (Opera). Works just like alt-tab for switching between windows, tap tab key once switches back and forth, hold ctrl and tap tab key walks through.

    I use this very frequently going back and forth between two web pages, or between three pages, email-wiki, email-projectMgmt, email-calendar etc.

    It is a must have, I would switch to edge right away, uses less CPU and memory than all other browsers (so far). Thanks Mattias

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      alhpa
      Brass Contributor
      Dec 21, 2019

      mattjan, We are not discussing the general ability to switch tabs with ctrl+tab in this thread, but rather MRU order of tab switching, which Chrome certainly does NOT have. Let's stay on topic.

      Please read the links I posted above.

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        Deleted
        Nov 10, 2020

        alhpa Michael_Buchner mattjan Hi all, we wanted to follow-up with you to share some good news! After receiving feedback about this functionality from Insiders like you, our team implemented the tab switching feature. We started rolling this out a few months back, so give it a try and let us know what you think!

         

         

        Fawkes (they/them)
        Program Manager & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge

         

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    Michael_Buchner
    Brass Contributor
    Dec 04, 2019

    alhpaYou're absolutely right! I would also really love to switch over from FF to Edge Chromium but, as you wrote, this is one of my must-haves.

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