Recent Tab Switch

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Recent Tab Switch brings most-recently-used tab switching to Chrome — the same way Alt+Tab moves between windows. Hold the trigger key and a visual switcher appears, showing your recent tabs as cards with titles, favicons, and page thumbnails. Tap to step back through your history, add Shift to step forward, and release to land on the tab you want. It tracks the order in which you actually use tabs, so the one you were just on is always a single keystroke away, and it falls back to a keyboard command on pages where the overlay can't be drawn, like the New Tab page and the Web Store.

Chrome's built-in Ctrl+Tab cycles tabs left-to-right in strip order, which is almost never the tab you're reaching for — in practice you're bouncing between the two or three tabs you've touched most recently, and the default behavior makes you hunt for them every time. Recent Tab Switch fixes that with the Firefox-style "jump back to the last tab" flow Chrome never shipped, complete with a preview so you can see where you're going. It runs entirely on your device with no tracking, no analytics, and no network calls, keeps thumbnails in a local cache that never leaves your machine, and is fully configurable — so it's a fast, private quality-of-life upgrade for anyone who works across a lot of tabs.

Chrome's shortcut UI won't accept `Ctrl+Tab`, but you can still assign it to the command via
the internal `developerPrivate` API. Follow the console snippet in
https://superuser.com/questions/104917/chrome-tab-ordering/1326712#1326712