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Ctrl+Tab navigation for Firefox tabs:

Ctrl-Tab UI
  • Tabs are presented in most-recently-used order, similar to Alt+Tab on various operating systems
  • Releasing Tab and pressing it again moves to the next preview
  • Pressing W closes the selected tab
  • Releasing Ctrl switches to the selected tab
  • Hidden preferences: browser.ctrlTab.mostRecentlyUsed

Shift+Ctrl+Tab shows all tabs in a grid:

All Tabs UI
  • Shows tabs from all open windows
  • Tabs can be closed by middle clicking
  • Search field filters tabs based on their titles and addresses, Enter selects the first tab

Versions

2010-01-20: 0.21 @ AMO / local mirror
updated for Firefox 3.6
2009-03-16: 0.20
updated for Firefox 3.1b3
2008-09-08: 0.19.3
added Ctrl+Q shortcut for Windows (similar to IE7 QuickTabs)
thumbnail size increased
2008-09-07: 0.19.2
improved appearance when using Firefox 3.1 alpha 2 or later
browser.ctrlTab.recentlyUsedLimit defaults to 7 (instead of 5)
2008-08-20: 0.19.1
in the “All Tabs” search field, Up/Down/Left/Right keys move focus to the previews
more advanced sorting of the Ctrl+Tab previews
browser.ctrlTab.recentlyUsedLimit hidden pref added
2008-08-16: 0.19
only the first five Ctrl+Tab previews are in MRU order, the rest uses the tab bar order (bug 450743)
Ctrl+Tab previews can be clicked on (bug 445497)
2008-08-10: 0.18.3
preview size increased
fixed incompatibility with “Aeon Big” theme
2008-08-05: 0.18.2
“All Tabs” keyboard shortcut changed to Ctrl+Shift+A / Cmd+Shift+A
2008-07-18: 0.18.1
“All Tabs” keyboard shortcut changed to Ctrl+Alt+A
tab close buttons added to All Tabs panel
2008-07-18: 0.18
fixes bug 445474, 445573 and 445759
new styling for the All Tabs panel
2008-07-16: 0.17.9
compatibility update for Firefox 3.1a1pre
browser.ctrlTab.previewsCount hidden pref dropped
2008-07-15: 0.17.8
preview size increased
2008-07-15: 0.17.7
current tab can be closed with Ctrl+W in the Ctrl-Tab panel
preview JPEG quality increased from 50% to 60%
2008-07-03: 0.17.5
performance tweaks
2008-07-01: 0.17.4
fixed an issue with Google Docs (content shouldn’t receive keyboard events while the panel is open)
multi-monitor support fixed (hopefully)
2008-06-27: 0.17
number of ctrl-tab previews reduced to three
smooth scrolling reimplemented
styling overhaul
several bug fixes
2008-06-10: 0.16.4
fixed the popup’s position where the task bar is attached to the top or left side of the screen
2008-06-09: 0.16.3
small performance tweaks
2008-06-04: 0.16.2
pressing F4 a second time closes the “All Tabs” panel
Firefox 3.1a1pre support added
2008-05-31: 0.16.1
Linux styling update
2008-05-24: 0.16
All-Tabs panel shows tabs from all Firefox windows
2008-05-23: 0.15
various fixes
updated for Firefox 3.0
2008-01-10: 0.14.3-fx3
updated for Firefox 3 Beta 3
2007-09-19: 0.14.2-fx3
for Firefox 3 only
in case of “Ctrl-Tab”, the address of the target tab is displayed in the status bar
the “All Tabs” menu can be opened via F4
improved performance
2007-09-07: 0.14.1-fx3
for Firefox 3 only
small fixes
2007-09-06: 0.14-fx3
for Firefox 3 only
improved performance
revised appearance
hidden pref added: extensions.ctrl-tab.smoothScroll
2007-09-05: 0.13.5-fx3
for Firefox 3 only
Favicons moved to the lower left
all non-selected previews now consistently shrink to 75%
added a new All-Tabs icon
smooth scrolling disabled
code clean-up
2007-09-03: 0.13.3-fx3
for Firefox 3 only
All-Tabs menu replaced by panel that shows tab thumbnails and can be filtered
numerous fixes and improvements
2007-07-22: 0.12.1-fx3
for Firefox 3 only
small performance boost for the first time the popup shows up
2007-07-20: 0.12-fx3
for Firefox 3 only
smooth scrolling implemented
2007-07-16: 0.11.6-fx3
for Firefox 3 only
fixed: for tabs without a favicon, don’t show a random one
2007-07-15: 0.11.5-fx3
for Firefox 3 only
better Linux support
2007-07-14: 0.11.4-fx3
for Firefox 3 only
improved performance
2007-07-14: 0.11.3-fx3
for Firefox 3 only
more aggressive caching
2007-07-12: 0.11.2-fx3
for Firefox 3 only
previews are cached
switching directly in case there are only two tabs
2007-07-06: 0.11.1-fx3
for Firefox 3 only
now using a popup
2007-07-06: 0.10-fx3
for Firefox 3 only
favicons added
differently-sized previews
6 previews by default
larger title
2007-07-01: 0.9.2
disabled reflections for Firefox 2 to help performance
2007-06-30: 0.9.1
added Firefox 2 support (performs notably worse though)
extensions.ctrl-tab.previewsCount defaults to 4
2007-06-30: 0.9
hidden pref added: extensions.ctrl-tab.previewsCount (defaults to 6)
fixed: Ctrl+Shift+Tab moves into the wrong direction when first hit
fixed: Pressing Ctrl and then hitting Tab and Esc without releasing Ctrl makes the tab preview band permanent until Ctrl+Tab is hit again
2007-06-30: 0.8
initial release

Comments / show all

  1. Paolo wrote on November 23, 2009 12:24 AM GMT ():
    I noted that if I open a new tab with Ctrl-T, the new tab is opened next to the actual tab, maybe ’cause I have “Tabs Open Relative” addon, but in the summarize grid the new tab is in the last position. It return in the right place only after I have moved the tab right and back one position.
  2. akim wrote on December 8, 2009 10:25 AM GMT ():
    i’m using FF3.5.5 (Win XP Pro SP3) and hv problem at 1st. It does not browse through tabs as it suppose to, then change that “browser.ctrlTab.mostRecentlyUsed” to true and it works like a charm, just like my other pc using FF3.0.x.
  3. platon wrote on December 8, 2009 11:53 AM GMT ():
    After changing from FF 3.0.x to 3.5.5 behavior of ctrl-tab has changed gravely. Before I could page through all open tabs of one FF-window. Now I can only flip through the 7 thumbs initially visible when pressing Strg-tab rather than all open ones or alternatively select a show all button that did not use to be there. As I often have more than 20 tabs open in a FF-Window I would really like to be able to page through all of them rather than having the additional step of first showing them all.
  4. platon wrote on December 8, 2009 11:54 AM GMT ():
    Sorry, thats on a WinXP pro Machine.
  5. Kantabrigian KNTRO wrote on December 9, 2009 02:19 PM GMT ():
    Hello, Dão.

    I’d like to create an “es-AR” locale version of Ctrl-Tab. If you’re interested on this, please, email me.

    Thank you very much.
  6. Ezh wrote on January 15, 2010 05:14 PM GMT ():
    Please support FF3.6. I’d like to donate also.
  7. Alex wrote on January 19, 2010 10:39 AM GMT ():
    Yes, please support FF3.6!

    Actually, the addons seems to work fine when overriding compatibility.

    Only: Somehow, the bookmark sidebar is not populated when its open at startup. It only fills after closing and reopening it.
  8. Adam Alton wrote on January 19, 2010 11:07 AM GMT ():
    This doesn’t seem to work on OS X unless you’ve got “Tab to move keyboard focus between:” set to “All controls” in system preferences.

    Pressing ctrl tab brings up the tab switcher, but pressing tab again doesn’t switch to the next tab. This is odd, as it can obviously detect the initial tab press (when you press ctrl tab) but pressing tab again does nothing.
  9. Alex wrote on January 21, 2010 10:43 AM GMT ():
    Thanks for updating!
  10. Katie wrote on January 22, 2010 05:04 AM GMT ():
    I noticed when I upgraded to the beta that my browser stopped saving my tabs/windows when I exited, something I had never had problems with before. I searched and did some troubleshooting based upon Mozilla support and advice on the internet, but nothing helped. Finally, I uninstalled all of my add-ons, and it went back to working. I re-installed all of the add-ons one by one and everything was fine until I installed Ctrl-Tab. Once it was installed, I exited Firefox and noted that it hadn’t asked me if I wanted to save the tabs before closing. When I re-opened the browser, none of the tabs from my previous session were there. I then uninstalled Ctrl-Tab and now the tabs are saved again. Not sure why this is happening, since I thought that it had been updated to work with the beta. Was I mistaken?

    I’ll keep checking back to see if it will work without problems, as I found it to be an incredibly useful extension.

    I’m on OS 10.6 with Firefox 3.6b5.
  11. tyler wrote on January 26, 2010 12:53 PM GMT ():
    Hi

    The ctrl+Tab extension is awesome and I could not live without it! But I have one minor suggestion for it. Make it possible to organise and drag & drop the tabs using the grid view.

    Perhaps a simple little ’grab’ handle in the top left corner of each tile (like the close ’handle’ in the top right when you hover over it)?

    Keep up the great and greatly appreciated work.
  12. Ryan wrote on January 30, 2010 09:17 PM GMT ():
    The behavior for ctrl+shift+tab is confusing. Without this extension, I can use Ctrl+tab to go to the next tab, and ctrl+shift+tab to go back to the previous tab. This extension hijacks ctrl+shift+tab to do something completely different.
  13. mr_p wrote on February 9, 2010 07:24 PM GMT ():
    Help…

    I am running windows xp pro & firefox 3.6.

    I installed the add-on and it simply doesn’t work. It shows up in my add-ons menu,
    but hitting ctrl+tab does what it’s always done…simply advance to the next tab.

    Also, the settings button in the add-on menu is there but greyed-out.

    Thanks
  14. Matt wrote on February 11, 2010 06:54 AM GMT ():
    I’m a little ticked off. I’m running Firefox 3.6 on Windows 7. In installed your add-on, didn’t like an aspect of it, so I uninstalled it. But it’s still functioning on my Firefox install! What the hell? Now I have no instance of it in my add-ons list, so there’s nothing to remove, but when I press ctrl+tab, sure enough it brings up the display of the open tabs, and switches back and forth between the two most recently used tabs instead of linearly switching between the tabs. This is really pissing me off. I am not liking the idea of reinstalling Firefox.
  15. Erik wrote on February 13, 2010 07:40 PM GMT ():
    I seem to be observing the same behavior as Matt above: I had the extension on under FF 3.6 on Vista, and it wasn’t properly highlighting the selected tab after hitting ctrl-tab (and then further hits on tab didn’t show the highlight moving). So I decided to try disabling the extension and restarted Firefox. To my surprise the extension was still active as I saw no change in behavior…
    [Or is it that your extension is now part of the standard 3.6 ???]
  16. Rick wrote on February 14, 2010 04:04 AM GMT ():
    Yeaqh, looks like it’s going to be part of FF, except it’s not quite working on Mac 3.6. www.techpavan.com/2009/08/11/ctrl-tab-feature…amoroka-alpha/ So go to about:config search for ctrltab, and turn it off.
  17. Michael wrote on February 18, 2010 12:32 PM GMT ():
    Seit ich den Firefox von 3.5.x (3.5.8) auf 3.6 aktualisiert habe passen die Farben nicht mehr, der Hintergrund ist weiß und nicht mehr dunkel/grau und es ist nicht mehr erkennbar, welches Tab markiert ist. Der Rahmen ist nicht mehr sichtbar, oder farblich nicht mehr erkennbar.

    FF 3.6
    Win7 Enterprise
    und “Office 2007 Black” Theme, falls das wegen der Farben einen Einfluß hat!?
  18. Whitewolfcan wrote on February 18, 2010 06:20 PM GMT ():
    I also have the problem of this extension not uninstalling properly. However, you can completely turn it off by setting the browser.allTabs.previews parameter in about:config to false
  19. Nathan Spears wrote on February 25, 2010 08:10 PM GMT ():
    I can’t verify this assertion:

    “Shows tabs from all open windows ”

    which I would really like to get working. Help?
  20. André Durão wrote on March 9, 2010 04:12 PM GMT ():
    Hi there,
    I use ctrl-tab a lot in win/linux but when I tried to switch in osx 10.6(holding ctrl and pressing tab) the tabs dont change…
    Do os x needs some config to ctrl-tab to work?

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