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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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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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Anonymous
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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    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!!! 🤬

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    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 ;-).

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      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

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        Michael_Buchner
        Brass Contributor
        Nov 11, 2020

        Deletedwell, that's the default download location for all sites/urls you download a file from. Firefox stores and keeps the download location site-dependent, that means if you download a file from www.x.com, default download location would be C:\x and if you download from www.y.com it would be C:\y. That's a pretty nice thing in case you want to download documents from different web sites periodically, for example invoices each month. You don't have to switch the locations every time as Firefox knows where to store the files (download location history).

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