Quick Tab Switch
Extension Actions
- Extension status: Featured
- Live on Store
⚡ Instantly switch between your two most recent tabs with Alt+Q. Like Alt+Tab for windows, but for Chrome tabs!
Perfect for comparing pages, copying information between tabs, or quickly going back and forth while working. No mouse needed, no clicking through tabs.
✨ Features:
• Simple Alt+Q shortcut (⌥Q on Mac) - fully customizable
• Switch between your last 2 used tabs instantly
• Works on all websites and pages
• Lightweight and fast - no performance impact
• Zero permissions required - completely private
🚀 How to use:
1. Install the extension
2. Press Alt+Q to jump between your two most recent tabs
3. Customize the shortcut at chrome://extensions/shortcuts if needed
💡 Perfect for:
• Comparing information between two pages
• Copying data from one tab to another
• Quick research and fact-checking
• Bouncing between work documents
• Any workflow requiring back-and-forth navigation
⚙️ Advanced Setup:
Want to use Ctrl+Tab instead? You can modify Chrome's settings file:
• Windows: Win+R → "notepad %LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Preferences"
• Linux: gedit ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Preferences
• Change all occurrences of "Alt+Q" to "Ctrl+Tab"
• Disable Chrome sync to prevent overrides
If the above way doesn't work for you, follow the instructions on this Gist: https://gist.github.com/ilyachase/49c7a6d1aa543d16568520560cfaf226
This extension is free and always will be. However, if you want to buy the author a coffee, it will be much appreciated 🤗
https://buymeacoffee.com/ilyachase
Latest reviews
- Shaye Bigelow
- The method explained to edit the preferences file doesn't work. As soon as you open chrome again, the file is overwritten and it get's switched back to Ctrl+Q as the shortcut. Is there another option to change the shortcut to Ctrl+Tab?
- Tianyi Xu
- No frills, works as expected.
- users
- Nice! I really like it!
- Di
- perfection
- Bharath Kumar
- Just works! Thank you so much!
- Slava Lishnevsky
- This bulletproof extension even works on system tabs!
- Rei Onami
- nice
- Hi Im Unranked
- exactly what i needed. than kyou
- Vitali Kupets
- Finally a sane extension to do the recent tab switch, I would give it an extra star for providing actually working unobtrusive Ctrl+Tab method
- Pavol Harvanka
- Simple, safe (no permissions requested during install) and 5 stars are mostly for guide to enable Ctrl+Tab switch. Thank you!
- Dean Weinert
- Super responsive, no nonsense and easy to configure. I use this thousands of times a day, THANK YOU!
- مصطفى خطاب
- Thanks alot. It's very helpful and free.
- Ahmet Katranci
- Exactly what I wanted!
- Tiffany C
- Thank you, I just needed something simple that works and this is absolutely it. Have a wonderful day ahead!
- Anhelina Kavaliova
- best extension ever
- Chukwuka Morka
- Awesome. Just works!
- Rangi Robinson
- Easy to install and configure. Thanks!
- Loïc D
- simple and perfect
- Nyi Lwin Min
- exactly what I needed
- Cnydo
- Free, open-source, and very fast. Goodjob man
- denncc
- This is the one plugin that I cannot live without. Lightning fast. If the project is open sourced I want to see how it's implemented.
- aki play
- Does NOT work if the recent tab is push to another window within the same profile
- l g
- Excellent productivity plugin that actually works and is absolutely free.
- полина
- it is really helpful, thank you!
- sanket vikramsinh shinde
- this is what i looking for
- J Stephen R
- FINALLY!!! An MRU tab extension that actually works!!
- Huy Trần Quốc
- exactly what i'm looking for. Thank u very much!!
- Isabelle Bart-Williams
- Had to switch to Chrome for work and this extension is the only thing that has made it bearable. Thank you!!
- Nalla Perumal
- Superb! its works well!
- Troy Richardson
- Finally a simple tab toggle switcher that JUST WORKS.
- Ameku
- thanks it's working. The description picture is cute!
- Dylan
- Good job, but chrome recently released the tab group. The current tab switching does not support tab switching within a group.
- Alexander Lippert
- Not working within saved tab groups. ("Save Group" is a fairly recent feature when you right-click on the name of a tab group.)
- Eugene Makarov (makarovpro)
- Работает на дату отзыва!
- Steve Rand
- Works perfectly! Small download, lightweight extension. Remapped to Alt-Q to be close to Alt-Tab and now i'm not sure how I lived without it!
- Steve Rand
- Works perfectly! Small download, lightweight extension. Remapped to Alt-Q to be close to Alt-Tab and now i'm not sure how I lived without it!
- Айрат
- Работает. Пипец, конечно, что нет подобной комбинации в хроме по умолчанию, как в Мозиле, например. Спасибо разрабу.
- bumbu a
- Does the job, and doesn't annoy you with payment that doesn't transfer to multiple computers (as the other extension does).
- bumbu a
- Does the job, and doesn't annoy you with payment that doesn't transfer to multiple computers (as the other extension does).
- Andrey Andrey
- Перестало работать((
- goglus mik
- Super-ски!!!!
- Michael Amiethyst
- On OSX the default key sequence was ⌥Q, not Alt(cmd on Mac)-Q. Other than that it works great!
- Michael Amiethyst
- On OSX the default key sequence was ⌥Q, not Alt(cmd on Mac)-Q. Other than that it works great!
- Valeriy Fedorenko
- Wow, finally! Had to dig through multiple MRU extensions to finally find a replacement for the one, that I've used long time. This one works perfectly and does exactly, what it should. Thank you, author!
- Valeriy Fedorenko
- Wow, finally! Had to dig through multiple MRU extensions to finally find a replacement for the one, that I've used long time. This one works perfectly and does exactly, what it should. Thank you, author!