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Switching between tabs using keyboard shortcut
Elliot Kirk In both Firefox and Chrome, CTRL-Tab takes you backwards through previous tabs and does not open them (shows mini preview) in reverse order as long as you hold CTRL as you press Tab. It might as well be a browser standard feature across them all. And it would mesh well with new sleeping tabs feature so you don't end up waking currently unused tabs.
I agree with Lance808 that ctrl-tab should have the same behavior as in FF which is to alternate between 2 most recent tabs. Edge cycles through all tabs which is kind of useless when lots of tabs are open (as most people usually have) because then I would rather click on the tab I need. Alternating between 2 tabs is a common use case when one needs to copy something from one page to another etc. Note that pressing ctrl-tab-tab should go to the 3rd most recent tab etc. like in FF. This way you are able to easily navigate to any most recent tab (much more useful than just cycling through all of them in sequence).
Lastly, when I click the close button on any tab, the most recently open tab before the closed tab should be the one that becomes active.
Since some people might prefer cycling through all, I would say this could be an option. This is the main reason why I won't use Edge.