A couple of tab behaviour enhancement suggestions:Add option to use most recent order when switching tabs with ctrl+tabAdd option to always switch to new tabs when they are createdThese are missing from Chrome and would be great to have in Edge.

antlane MRU for Ctrl+Tab is a must for me. Not sure why Chrome has always refused to offer the standard Windows behavior even as an option. Opera allows it.

quietlion Chrome refused it because some devs decided they didn't want it, then in typical fashion stuck to their decision with superhuman levels of stuborness. The basic argument was that it would be too confusing for new users. First off, that doesn't even address the question of it being an option (which is what people were asking for) and secondly it ignores the fact that every OS works with MRU so that's definately the expected behaviour for anyone who uses keyboard shortcuts as an integral part of their workflow.

antlane Absolutely. This is REQUIRED for my workflow, and it's ingrained in my muscle-memory. I need Edge to behave consistently with Alt-Tab when switching tabs with Ctrl-Tab. I need Edge to behave consistently with IE (which had this option), FireFox (which has this option), and Visual Studio, SQL Server Management Studio, Notepad++ (all of which default to this behavior). MRU tab-switching option for Ctrl-Tab is a MUST-HAVE feature for me, and the lack of it was the single biggest reason I wasn't a huge EDGE user previously.

Thank you everyone! This is a great discussion. I will let the team that does tab management know of your beliefs.

As a reference, here's a link to the feature request on Chromium's bug tracker:https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=5569It's over 10 years old, has more than 500 comments, almost 1000 stars and a ton of duplicate issues... More than that, lately, even @google.com & @chromium.org users got fed up and joined the discussion requesting MRU tabs...Please make this happen! :(

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Konrad Sikorski
Copper Contributor
Apr 06, 2020
Fom me must have as i described in similar topic https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/ctrl-tab-cycles-through-tabs-in-recently-used-order/m-p/844430
JordanQ
Steel Contributor
Nov 18, 2020
antlane I've long clamored for ctrl+tab tab switching in MRU order. I just want to add to this thread that with the Windows 10 20H2 update, alt+tab window switching includes (optionally) the last five or last three Edge browser tabs. Rejoice, because this essentially resolves the issue! With browser tabs treated as separate windows for alt+tab purposes, I can quickly switch between two browser tabs, even with three or more tabs open. Plus, the thumbnails come up, which is an added bonus. The downside is that this functionality is baked into Windows, not into Edge per se, meaning it won't work (I presume) on Mac or Linux.
- IonutBotizan
  Brass Contributor
  Nov 18, 2020
  JordanQ No, sorry, this is far from solving the problem! I can't imagine who in their right mind even approved that feature in the first place...
  1. I want Alt+Tab to show me my recent Windows, not clutter my screen with my recent "activities", as they were trying to sell this "feature" (which I disabled after 5 minutes of trying it out; it was that annoying).
  2. I want Ctrl+Tab to navigate between the tabs I have opened within the same window, not the most recent tabs across all browser windows.
  
  It would be nice if people wouldn't try to re-invent decade old features that work great exactly the way they are. Also, it would be nice if the MRU navigation spec (if it ever gets to this) would be written by people that actually use it and understand it properly and not by people who have no clue how it works and why it's so important to us because they're used to flick their fingers on a trackpad to do everything and the only keyboard shortcuts they're familiar with are Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V (or Cmd+C / Cmd+V, as most "artists" in charge with designing things use Macs, where they don't even have a proper Alt+Tab)... 🙁
  
  P.S.: I might sound salty because I am... The Windows Terminal team just botched the MRU thingie and delivered a complete monstrosity, even though they used as a reference the perfect implementation of MRU tabs delivered by VS Code. It's really hard to understand how within the same company a team delivers the perfect thing (VS Code), a second team just massacres it (Terminal) and the third one can't even be bothered (Edge). 😔
  - JordanQ
    Steel Contributor
    Nov 20, 2020
    IonutBotizan Hey, I understand the frustration. I'm a mouse and keyboard man myself, and most of my weekdays are spent in front of a proper Windows workstation. However, I feel differently about alt+tab including browser tabs. I've been using this for about a week on the job and I like it. What are browser tabs if not basically program windows within a window? Each one is just another "thing" that can either be brought to the front or set in the background. If I have five tabs open, and I'm switching between two of them, alt+tab will now allow me to do this. Moreover, alt+tab now allows me to switch from another program directly to a certain browser tab, rather than just switching to the browser and *then* to the tab I'm looking for. For me, this works.
    
    However, to your point, I still hope that ctrl+tab switching will be given the option to occur in MRU order. It seems like it would be an easy toggle to have.
Pete_FFC
Steel Contributor
Nov 20, 2020
antlane I like this feature, but what I would like to see is that when I invoke it, the thumbnails of all of the Edge tabs that I have open are together instead of having to look for them by tabbing past other apps that I already have open. The order of the Edge thumbnails to be is irrelevant as long as I can see from the thumbnails what they each are.
- w3wilkes
  Copper Contributor
  Jun 16, 2022
  Sorry for being so late to this party.
  Pete_FFC I kid you not, my wife normally has about 80 tabs (drives me nuts) open. In her case I think thumbnails would be useless.
  On MRU tabbing I'm all in. I drug my feet leaving IE really just because of MRU tabbing. Even Android arranges in MRU order when you hit the task list button to scroll the open apps on your phone.
SEA6000
Brass Contributor
Jun 16, 2022
This feature to me is very bad because I always have 600-700 tabs with sleep . and since this feature added to explorer , my explorer will continue crash because of GDI or HANDERS more then 10000
- w3wilkes
  Copper Contributor
  Jun 21, 2022
  I was just requesting that MRU tabbing be an OPTIONAL setting like it was in Internet Explorer. If you don't want or like MRU tabbing in the Edge browser then you wouldn't activate it. The default would be as it is now like it was in IE.
  - SEA6000
    Brass Contributor
    Jun 19, 2024
    but this rubbish feature crash my explorer even didn't activate it ...https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftEdge/comments/1df006j/my_solution_for_the_missing_edgewindowtabmanager/
OneOfTheUsernamesofAll
Copper Contributor
May 24, 2024
nice, just recently passed the 5yr anniversary of this BASIC FUNCTIONALITY being requested

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