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Switch between Tabs - Recent Order + Tab Order - Best of Two Worlds

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Cartucho
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When switching tabs, Firefox allows you two behaviours: Recent Order or Tab Order but you have to choose between them. This is a trick to have THE TWO BEHAVIOURS TOGETHER Catch: AutoHotkey is required.

In Firefox Options/Preferences -> General -> Tabs" mark enable recent order (ticked) Then compile the next script in Autohotkey and keep it running.

  1. if WinActive("ahk_exe firefox.exe")

^Q::Send, ^{TAB} ^Tab::Send, ^{PGDN} +^Tab::Send, ^{PGUP}

  1. if

Now with Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab you move right and left between Tabs and with Ctrl+Q you move to last viewed Tab. I choose Q because is next to Tab but you can change it in the second line of the script. Cheers!

When switching tabs, Firefox allows you two behaviours: '''Recent Order''' or '''Tab Order''' but you have to choose between them. This is a trick to have '''THE TWO BEHAVIOURS TOGETHER''' Catch: AutoHotkey is required. In Firefox Options/Preferences -> General -> Tabs" mark enable recent order (ticked) Then compile the next script in Autohotkey and keep it running. ----------------------------------------------- #if WinActive("ahk_exe firefox.exe") ^Q::Send, ^{TAB} ^Tab::Send, ^{PGDN} +^Tab::Send, ^{PGUP} #if ----------------------------------------------- Now with '''Ctrl+Tab''' and '''Ctrl+Shift+Tab''' you move right and left between Tabs and with '''Ctrl+Q''' you move to last viewed Tab. I choose Q because is next to Tab but you can change it in the second line of the script. Cheers!

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Cartucho
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This forum change some characters of the script... (don't work if copy like that) where says "1." change for the simbol "#"

Maybe some moderator can edit it. Thanks!

jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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If you put a blank space at the beginning of each line, or but <pre> before and </pre> after your code, the forum won't mess with it.

Also, there are add-ons for this. I prefer sequential access as my default, so my add-on allows assigning a keyboard shortcut to switch to the last active tab. It also has drop-down lists, if that would be of interest.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/switch-to-previous-active-tab/

Cartucho
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jscher2000 said
If you put a blank space at the beginning of each line, or but <pre> before and </pre> after your code, the forum won't mess with it. Also, there are add-ons for this. I prefer sequential access as my default, so my add-on allows assigning a keyboard shortcut to switch to the last active tab. It also has drop-down lists, if that would be of interest. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/switch-to-previous-active-tab/

Thanks! I did not know that extension... I think what is better that way what depend of a external program.

About forum messing with code, thanks for the tip but I can't edit my posts... maybe for next time.