Most Recent Tabs Using ctrl+tab Like Mozilla Firefox

[abdoei]

Description

Mozilla firefox-like most recent tabs switching

Who's implementing?

• I'm willing to implement this feature myself

The problem

All hacks that implement this feature via extensions are buggy and not consistent. And that is the thing that I CAN'T fully switch to chromium for years now because of.

Possible solutions

Simply using the Firefox way of implementing it instead of a simple index that increments by ctrl+tab and decrements by ctrl+shift+tab.

Alternatives

I used nearly all the extensions out there for that.

Additional context

No response

[rany2]

Is there a Chromium fork that already does this? We might be able to incorporate their patch to UGC.

[abdoei]

Honestly, I haven't searched for this or dug into the chromium code to know what UGC is. I thought it would not be hard to implement but I can't underestimate how much effort could be put to achieve this. I think a doubly linked list could fit nicely for this purpose.
BTW, nice new icon.

[rany2]

dug into the chromium code to know what UGC is

UGC is just UnGoogledChromium. I was just asking if another Chromium based browser implemented it already so we could copy-paste their implementation.

BTW, nice new icon.

All credit to @SecularSteve. It's actually a Flatpak only change for legal reasons (whether their logic is valid or not is a different story, but I didn't argue and just changed it).

[abdoei]

I think Brave have this feature.
I use ungoogled via flatpak on manjaro as it is faster when updating than AUR being built.

[smimon]

Covered by an extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tab-thumbnails-switcher/jpaiaplhepeiilhiegfnknedhjepknng?hl=en

[WizardUli]

Is there a Chromium fork that already does this? We might be able to incorporate their patch to UGC.

Brave browser does this

After fifteen-some years on FF I want to migrate to UGC (Brave with its crypto AI stuff is a instant nope from me) but not having ability to do both:

• switch tabs in MRU order (missing)
• switch tabs in user defined order (This already works very well on UGC... ctrl-pgup/down for switching tabs in the same order as they are on tab bar, move them with ctrl+shift+pgup/down or focus specific ones with ctrl+number.)

is a complete usability killer for me.

Btw. desktop applications like VSCode, most of Qt apps, etc.. have supported both switching styles since the beginning of time (except that switching to a specific tab is often done with alt+number instead of ctrl+number).

[WizardUli]

Even if it is decided that such functionality is not wanted in UGC for some reason it would be wonderful if somebody with chromium code base knowledge could create a patch for this so people can apply it into their build systems (like Nix, GUIX, or custom package recipes for Arch, Gentoo.. etc).