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Tab behaviour enhancements
A couple of tab behaviour enhancement suggestions: Add option to use most recent order when switching tabs with ctrl+tab Add option to always switch to new tabs when they are created These are m...
antlane I would really like to see tab switching in most recent order as an option. This works just like alt+tab for open programs and makes a ton of sense. It is also necessary for switching quickly between two tabs, a common use scenario. I've always been confused as to why Chrome does not have this feature. Heck, even IE has it!
regarding your question on why Chrome doesn't have it, if you read through some of the bug reports on it, it's basically the stubbornness of one dev (or product manager). They decided that its not intuitive, completely ignore anyone asking how having behavior that's the opposite of every OS and every other app is intuitive, and basically just bury their head in the sand. From there, the issue obviously snowballs because the longer you stick to your guns (against all logic) the worse it is when you finally change.
You can reference the main bug thread here;
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=5569
It's over a decade old and marked as wontfix.