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Popup Tab Switcher

by Dmitriy Davydov

v2024.2 Updated Jul 22, 2024 249KiB
CWS
10K
Users
★ 4.44
136 reviews
#4918
of 187.5K
accessibility
#277 of 5.8K
⚠️Not updated in over a year

Description

The extension shows you a popup with last active tabs when you press its shortcut (Alt + Y by default). You cycle through them by holding Alt and pressing Y. By releasing the Alt key you switch to the chosen tab. This is like switching between apps in Windows (Alt + Tab) and in macOS (Cmd + Tab). Also, when you close an active tab, you will be placed to the previously active one. It is more helpful than the default Chrome's behaviour, which activates the nearest tab. You can delegate default switching between tabs by pressing Ctrl + Tab to the extension, see how https://github.com/dvdvdmt/popup-tab-switcher#replace-default-tab-switching-behaviour NOTE: The extension tries to render its popup on the page wherever it is possible, but there are cases where it can't do that: * Chrome's web store pages. The extension doesn't work here. * Special Chrome tabs such as Settings, New tab, History, etc. In this case the extension tries to switch a user from a special tab to a previous tab without showing a popup. * The page has no focus (a user searches on the page, focused on address bar, etc.). In this case the extension shows its popup and starts a timer by the end of which it will switch a user to the selected tab. * Files pages (URL starts with file:///). The extension can't work on such pages without a special permission which you can turn on in Extensions > Popup Tab Switcher (Details) > Allow access to file URLs. Source code on GitHub https://github.com/dvdvdmt/popup-tab-switcher
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Reviews (14 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2022-04-29
Anonymous

If you open chrome on two desktop, closing chrome from one desktop, you will force switch to Chrome on another desktop. Please repair as soon as possible ...

★☆☆☆☆2022-01-23
Thiago Moreti

conflicts with next tab chrome shortcut alt + y :(

★☆☆☆☆2020-08-07
S K Puneeth Kumar

alt+y only switches me to the last active tab.

★★☆☆☆2024-08-09
Beth Welsh

Doesn't include grouped tabs in Chrome

★★☆☆☆2024-03-10
Tolgay Toklar

It doesn't work well with tab groups

★★☆☆☆2020-01-05
AILminu TRAVAIL IN RAILWAV.

Why you make the process more and more difficult?

★★☆☆☆2020-01-04
Eric Waters

I'm sorry, I'm sure you worked very hard on this, but I just don't see the point. CTRL+Tab/CTRL+Shift+Tab cycles between open tabs already, and as far as I can tell, all this extension does is that with a different key combination and a little popup window. When I watched the video and read the description, I thought "No, it's gotta do something else, surely..." but, no, not really. Meanwhile, it reads my browsing history and the content of the sites I'm on. That kinda makes sense based on what it's supposed to do, but since there's already a keyboard shortcut for that, it makes me nervous. Honestly, I don't see the point.

★★★☆☆2026-03-06
Martin Kordas

I think this extension is the best I've tried, however it still has several drawbacks: - When I run Chrome PWA app (e. g. Youtube), tab switcher cycles also through these PWA app windows and there are annoying bugs with tab order. - When some browser text box (e.g. search window or address bar) is focused, popup doesn't get displayed. - Zoom problems when using in PDF viewer (if PDF is zoomed in, tab switcher is zoomed out and vice versa). - Sometimes popup stays accidentally displayed and I have to press Enter to switch the tab. Mostly it is when browser is busy (webpage is heavy or still loading). - Bugs specific to particular websites (Google Docs - when switching to some the tab, there is no focus on the document). - Popup switcher is not native browser function, so it is slow sometimes and it doesn't work on special browser pages (new tab, settings etc). It is a shame Chrome doesn't support this natively.

★★★☆☆2024-12-07
Carlin Li

Works great to switch tabs but unfortunately it also activates when closing tabs. Likely won't continue using this extension since it messes up the close tab behavior.

★★★☆☆2024-10-17
Travis W

I like this lot when it works however there is a bug somewhere in this where when enabled it allows chrome to bring a different window in the background to the forefront/active window when you close a tab or close a pop up window, have had to disable this extension for the time being as this is massively annoying.

★★★☆☆2024-02-05
Simon Shkilevich

Good, but when closing a tab it switches to the previous opened tab, not convenient when you want to to close a lot of old tabs in a row

★★★☆☆2023-01-24
Peanut

chrome run on two desktops. A sorting bug occurs. This makes this extension unusable.

★★★☆☆2022-08-31
Jess Gold

It's good, mostly. However, I try to change the settings, but they're always reverted back to default after I close the settings pop up. Not so great. Would appreciate it if you could fix this issue, the auto switch timeout feature is really annoying. Thanks

★★★☆☆2020-12-02
Artemi Lebedev

add plz option: "Switch to previously active tab in ACTIVE window" thx

Permissions (5)

Permissions

activeTab Can access the current tab when you click the extension favicon scripting Can inject scripts into web pages storage Can store data locally in your browser tabs Can see your open tabs and their URLs

Details

Version 2024.2
Updated Jul 22, 2024
Size 249KiB
First Seen Mar 30, 2026