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