PowerSwitch

Name: PowerSwitch
Rating: 4.68 (28 reviews)
Author: Malcolm Handley

Switch tabs by typing

As of May 2026, PowerSwitch has 457 users and a 4.68/5 rating from 28 reviews in the Workflow & Planning category.

Malcolm Handley Workflow & Planning

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457

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4.68

28 reviews

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Version

2024.8.26

Manifest V3

History

2 snapshots

Tracking since Apr 1, 2026.

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Date	Users	Rating	Reviews	Version
Apr 1, 2026	459	4.68	28	2024.8.26
May 29, 2026	470	4.68	28	2024.8.26
Now	457	4.68	28	2024.8.26

Permissions & access

Permissions: tabssystem.display
Host access: <all_urls>

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About

PowerSwitch is a tab switcher that lets you switch tabs instantly with your keyboard. Press command/control-k to open the list of tabs, type to filter the tabs, press enter to select one.

This solves two problems:
- you can pop over to a particular tab just by knowing its name. Lost your Gmail tab in ten windows with twelve tabs each? No problem: Just press command-k and type some of the name of the tab.
- you can easily bounce between two tabs, the way that you can alt-tab between apps: command-k, enter.

Version 2024.8.26 updates to manifest v3.

Version 2013.9.21 fixes bugs with full-screen windows and with not bringing a window to the front when switching tabs (apparently because of a change in Chrome's behavior) and removes the toolbar button. Now the keyboard shortcut is the only way to use PowerSwitch.

Version 2013.4.2 fixes a bug that caused the list of tabs to be empty after loading certain kinds of tabs.

(PowerSwitch is similar to Emacs' iswitchb and also to the Recent Files UI in IntelliJ.)