Forum Discussion

Michael_Buchner's avatar
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.
mattjan's avatar
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

alhpa's avatar
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.

  • Deleted's avatar
    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

     

    • costinel's avatar
      costinel
      Brass Contributor
      Aug 30, 2021

      f*ck meeee, **this** is the cause of my tabs appearing in WINDOWS apps switching? how do I turn this crap off? There is no "Settings - System - Multitasking" menu in my Edge!!! EDIT: found it, WTF is this setting going into WINDOWS SETTINGS? Move it into Edge's settings, not into OPERATING SYSTEM settings.

      I want ALT-TAB to switch between PROGRAMS!!!
      for switching child windows of the same program, there is CTRL-TAB for that! since 30 f*cking years!!!

      @op, you want cycle, learn what shift does to alt-tab and ctrl-tab!!! 🤬

    • Michael_Buchner's avatar
      Michael_Buchner
      Brass Contributor
      Nov 10, 2020

      DeletedYes, that's awesome! Great feature, well done!
      Last thing I'm missing is that Edge is not able to remember the download locations (local disc, network, ...) based on download url/domain like Firefox does. After that is implemented or available as extension, I'm gonna migrate from FF to Edge ;-).

      • Deleted's avatar
        Deleted
        Nov 11, 2020

        Michael_Buchner Excellent, I'm glad to hear that solves your use case. And thanks for sharing that need; I have additional good news for you. If you paste edge://settings/downloads into your browser, you can change the default download location! Let me know if that helps.

         

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

Resources