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Modify Next/Previous Tab Keyboard Shortcut

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tallia1
tallia1
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I am on a mac and I hate that ALT+TAB needs to be used to swap in between tabs...

How hard is it for you to add the following? SHIFT+COMMAND+[RIGHT ARROW]: go to next active tab SHIFT+COMMAND+[LEFT ARROW]: go to previous active tab

These are the Mac defaults for tab-switching. If there was a menu entry, e.g. [view -> go to next tab] then you could use OSX keyboard settings to override its shortcut. But that's not the case!

I am on a mac and I hate that ALT+TAB needs to be used to swap in between tabs... How hard is it for you to add the following? SHIFT+COMMAND+[RIGHT ARROW]: go to next active tab SHIFT+COMMAND+[LEFT ARROW]: go to previous active tab These are the Mac defaults for tab-switching. If there was a menu entry, e.g. [view -> go to next tab] then you could use OSX keyboard settings to override its shortcut. But that's not the case!

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Dreadatour
Dreadatour
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Two months and no reply - can't wait anymore =)

Wrote a tiny plugin for this: http://firefox.dreadatour.ru/tabs-navigation-menu/

Dreadatour
Dreadatour
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It is vexing, but addon is not works, becouse there is a bug in Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=429824