CLUT: Cycle Last Used Tabs

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Cycle through last used Chrome tabs using keyboard shortcut.

Latest reviews

• (2023-11-20) Louis Yang: New issue after the 2023 Nov Chrome update: It doesn't work for tabs that are in Group and have Save Group turned on. -- It works. The only issue is that the rendering of the browsing history is delayed by 1 or 2 sec, and it didn't keep track of Alt key. So if I press and release Alt+S twice within 2 second, it will not switch between current page and the last page. And, if I press Alt+S and releasing S but holding Alt, it will not continue cycling to the previous page when I press S again. (Basically, it didn't behave like the Alt + Tab in Windows.)
• (2023-11-20) Louis Yang: Seems to not working for some website anymore after recent Chrome update.
• (2023-10-10) Chris Hayes: Next to ad-block, and a password manager, this is an essential extension for me.
• (2023-08-08) Motto Bel: exactly what I need. Many thanks to the developer!
• (2023-07-18) Guilherme Melo: uso demaaaaais
• (2023-07-13) YH_hao: alt+w
• (2023-07-12) 张冬冬: 在chrome://extensions/configureCommands or chrome://extensions/shortcuts可以设置快捷键（ change shortcuts）
• (2023-06-25) Ford: Awesome
• (2023-05-25) John M. Woodman: Stopped working. Uninstalled, reinstalled. Now it works again. (New version? Not sure.) Anyway, good extension. :-)
• (2023-03-27) PeaceBy Jesus: I could not change the shortcut keys to Ctrl+Tab in Chrome portable Version 111.0.5563.111 nor find any options under Manage extension, but I was able to change the shortcut key to Alt+1 to go to last accessed tab by going to chrome://extensions/shortcuts, (which is not part of the extensions menu). Thus while not being able to change the (apparently) absolutely forbidden (by Chrome - though Chromium-based browsers as Vivaldi do, as well as the superior Firefox) Ctrl+Tab switch yet CLUT (as well as the Previous Tab extension) enables alternative shortcut keys. It seems Google is determined not to allow changing Ctrl+Tab. See extension thread: https://superuser.com/questions/402095/switching-back-to-last-used-tab-on-chrome#:~:text=To%20switch%20to%20the%20most,(%20alt%20A%20on%20Windows).
• (2023-03-16) London L.: Great extension, but when loading any chat forum that's based on the Discourse plugin, the page fails to load (it rejects a lot of inline scripts). This made it unusable for me, as many of the resources I visit are chat forums.
• (2022-11-14) Stan James: I've been using this for four years now and can't imagine life without it. I just started using a new machine and thought Chrome was broken until I realized I hadn't installed this extension yet!
• (2022-10-24) Fabien: This extension is super useful, it does something that Chrome should have being doing out of the box for years (like Firefox for example)
• (2022-09-11) Anirudh Mv: Does the job because Chrome doesn't by default. 10/10 always install in all my chrome-based browsers that don't have LRU tab cycling
• (2022-09-10) Jimmy: Works perfectly and for me is indispensible for Chrome since I can't set the behavior with built in controls like Firefox. Well done.
• (2022-08-02) Jake Helme: Great work! Simple and just does what it should
• (2022-07-27) Thomas Joli-Coeur: Love those one purpose nicely integrated extensions. Simple and efficient functionality with big productivity improvements. +1
• (2022-07-09) tabliqat chi: ALT+W works but ALT+S doesn't work.
• (2022-07-04) Nicolas Fischer (nicofisch5): Do what is expected!
• (2022-06-30) Chaofan Peng: life saver , save you lots of time! Thx dev
• (2022-06-10) kamajje: I added it and it just works, great work!
• (2022-05-26) John S: a life saver! I can't believe i used chrome for so long without this. It's criminal to not use this.
• (2022-05-23) UtmostCreator: Hi there. That is my first review in "chrome web store", and that is not because I am rarely using a browser, but rather because I have not noticed such a decent boost in my productivity during the work, until I faced your extension, and this extension is the best productivity boost in the entire "chrome web store". I had used a similar one (but the older ext. required me to install an .exe file, and it worked only on Windows systems), however this ext. works flawlessly and it is crossplatform(because there is no need шт anything else than the application itself)! That is a huge deal and a time saver for me!!! Since I switch them all the time! My favorite shortcut is CTRL + SHIFT + S to cycle btw 4 last tabs. I would appreciate it if you could do a toggle for only the last 2 tabs (or a separate shortcut for this) because sometimes I switch to the tab I did not want (in case I need to switch swiftly btw 2 last tabs.) I highly recommend everyone at least to try out this app, and I am sure you will adore it! All the best, UtmostCreator
• (2022-04-25) Francis Davin: At last!!! thanks
• (2022-04-07) Jerther: Works very well, and has been for years now! Suggestion --> I'd like an option to switch between tabs of active window only.
• (2022-03-14) Michaël Lemieux: Worked like a charm! Just a note that the combination on Mac is with the option button. I also linked the shortcut to my mouse scroll wheel button to quickly change tab while reading without keyboard.
• (2022-03-03) Emeka Orji: This is Good!
• (2022-02-21) Lenny Stendig: It works! Just what I was looking for...
• (2022-02-13) jiri vesely: Could be better, e.g. show preview of tabs you are cycling. But given current standards and there is absolutely nothing. This is work of genius... All these other extensions are not even usable in 99.9% cases... Imagine google is billion $ company and couldn't even include tab cycling, imbeciles, they are probably too busy making money to include even most basic functions one could think of... My only problem: it doesn't cycle continuously, I got 2 times back and then when I press forward: instead of switching to previous tab, it switches to first one I was initially on... Also it cycles back even to other windows, which is bad!
• (2022-02-11) Nicolas Ahumada: This is the extension I've been looking for!!! Thank you Harshay!!
• (2022-01-30) Alexandru Pănoiu: It works, and Chrome is much more useable with this extension.
• (2021-11-08) David GUEDJ: works very good ! thank you
• (2021-10-30) Quan Nguyen Minh: Chrome menu More tools> Extensions: choose 3 dashes> Keyboard shortcut... Find this extension to assign shortcut to it. I choose Alt+Q; it works perfectly and help me to jump between 2 recent tabs quickly.
• (2021-10-23) Miha Mlakar: Cool stuff!
• (2021-10-04) Sarah Miles: Simple and effective. Love that it mocks the functionality of the windows Alt+Tab command--giving you both the option to toggle between your current and previous tab, as well as cycle backwards and forwards through your active tab history. Found via stack-overflow :)
• (2021-10-02) Amity Kani-ok: Can I change the extension icon? It doesn't look expressive on the taskbar.
• (2021-09-16) Patrick Ng: I tried quite a few other solutions in the past, and found this one works the best!
• (2021-09-09) Andrey Asadchy: Using it all the time
• (2021-09-01) Joseph Joy: good job! made my life easier
• (2021-08-23) Николай Тучин: Лучшее расширение! Экономит время и нервы) Ну и да, странно что в хром до сих пор не завезли эту фичу. Лиса это умеет уже давным-давно, и это действительно очень полезная функция.
• (2021-08-17) hillel135: one of the best extensions I have, and a great time saver
• (2021-08-11) Rob Haughey: I've been using it for years. Super helpful and simple. My only question is why is this not standard Chrome behaviour?
• (2021-07-23) Boyang Xu: That's what I want. Thank you!
• (2021-07-13) NaCl Yen: AWESOME!! 我怎能到現在才搜尋此功能！！
• (2021-06-30) Akshaye Shenoi: No frills extension. Does exactly what it advertises.
• (2021-06-25) Samuist: Exactly what I need to simple dumb last tabs switch! No idea why this still not in Chrome default code!
• (2021-06-19) Bradley Willard: It's the best one out there. I know it's for 'clut'ing but it would also be nice to have the ability to alt-q repeatedly to scroll through all the tabs much like in Windows. Well done. I've used this extension for at least a couple years on several gmail accounts.
• (2021-06-02) Yizhao Lang: I was using the other more popular extension (Jason's Recent Tabs) until that one updated in April and required a lot more permissions for no obvious reasons. Switched to this one and got the same functionality with few permissions asked.
• (2021-05-17) Alexey Yegupоv: good extension
• (2021-04-27) Robert Vlach: Excellent! It does exactly what it should do without asking for unnecessary permissions.

Latest issues

• (2024-03-09, v:1.7) Константин Салахутдинов: Issue with new Chrome Synced Tabs
  Best extenstion ever! But stopped working after the last Chrome update. I suppose it refuses to work normally while using of new synced tab groups. Please can you check and fix it?
• (2023-10-15, v:1.7) Dan H: Single window
  This seems to work like I want, but it's not usable switching between windows all the time. I want it to work within a single window only. Is there any way to configure this?
• (2023-07-14, v:1.7) Yafeng Fu: request for using control + tab to Quick switch
  as described in title
• (2023-02-16, v:1.7) Tung: not working anymore
  i updated to the latest macos (Ventura) and it stopped working used to work before
• (2022-12-23, v:1.7) jiri vesely: Could this show preview and don't switch to other windows?
  It is hard to navigate sometimes as you click on new tabs and then order messes up and it is hard to see how! It would be even better if it showed window preview, but at the same time switching to windows, otherwise it is annoying to switch couple tabs back quickly when you have to first select it in preview! And disable switching to other windows, if you were previously there!
• (2022-11-30, v:1.7) Bruno Déry: Make it work across profiles (if they have this extension installed) ?
  I love the simplicity and usefulness of this extension. I had it before, liked it, but for some reason forgot about it since maybe 1-2 years (so many extensions! ;-)). But found it again, and remembered my ONE feature I'd suggest to add: work across profiles, of course those which have the extension installed. But it's so useful, I don't mind installed it on all my profiles (about 8 ;-P). since this should be a native feature on browsers. I mean, I often have 60+ tabs open across 10+ windows on 5+ different desktops, how do they expect us to remember where we were previously (which tab again, on which window, on which desktop, ...). So a feature like this is a must.
• (2022-05-14, v:1.6) Denis Hébert: on Edge
  My employer (the government) restrict us to Edge extensions, No Chrome one. Can you make it available there? Thanks in advance!
• (2022-04-10, v:1.6) jiri vesely: Anyway disable switching to other windows?
  Anyway to disable (when switching to previous tabs) switching to other browser windows? I want to cycle only in window I Am currently in. Also sometimes tab switching doesn't work straight backwards/forwards - not quite sure what is going on. Maybe history of last tabs changes? I don't see how many tabs backwards clut can go in extensions tab... Feedback: If you could add thumbnails like when you alt+tab in windows that would help a lot! Thanks!
• (2021-11-26, v:1.6) Paola Barboni: can't change shortcut keys
  I use Chrome (96.0.4664.55) for macbook pro M1 2020 MacOs Monterey, and I can't change the shortcut keys. When I click the three dots in the extension panel the item "options" isn't active.
• (2021-10-02, v:1.6) Amity Kani-ok: icon
  Change the extension icon, it doesn't look neat on the taskbar.
• (2021-05-17, v:1.6) \\: option to switch between two tabs within current window only
  subj
• (2020-05-19, v:1.6) wood stock: Unclear description in keyboard setting reset
  Hi, The description regarding the need to reset keyboard setting is quite confusing to me. Are you referring to some options in your extension's option page (which is always grayed out), or some global setting in chrome (which I cannot find)? Please clarify. Thanks!
• (2019-02-26, v:1.6) Tudor Milencovici: Remapping to CTRL+Tab CTRL+Shift+Tab
  Hi, Is it at all possible to map the tab navigation to the standard CTRL+Tab CTRL+Shift+Tab? If I try to define the combination, I am moved away from the settings tab :) and if this is the only opened tab, nothing happens. It would be nice to be able to do this - would make this standard behaviour. Thanks and... great work!
• (2019-02-19, v:1.6) Rick Sims: Which open source license?
  Hello - can you tell me which open source license you released this under? Trying to get this approved at my place of work, but they will only approve software released under certain licenses. Can you add this information to your GIT page? That is where they verify the open source license. I use this at home and can barely use Chrome without it! Thanks for creating a great extension!
• (2018-11-15, v:1.6) Hosting NSB: Cant type in chrome sometimes when extension enabled
  I love this extension and can't imagine working without it, but recently I have been having a problem. When switching back into chrome from another program I cannot type anything, I have to trigger my recent tab and then I can type again. I have turned the extension off to make sure its that and it appears to be the issue. Has anyone else had this issue and know of a way to fix? Thank you!
• (2018-10-24, v:1.6) Shortcut for Mac ?
  Hey, I just got a recent mac machine and I am trying to figure out the shortcut combination for CLUT on Mac.
• (2018-09-11, v:1.6) Peter Lecki: icon
  I think your icon leaves a little to be desired. It's really small to where you can't really see what it says in the small font. And it shouldn't really be text to begin with. It should be an icon that makes it obvious what it does. For example, check out the icon for a very similar extension: Last Tab Back or Alt + Q Switch Tabs Keyboard Shortcut. I keep having to manually change the icons so it makes more sense but it's a pain the butt because I gotta do it on each computer I use.
• (2018-08-28, v:1.6) Robert Laverty: [PRIVACY] This extension tracks your online activity...
  The proof is in the source code: https://github.com/harshayburadkar/clut-chrome-extension/blob/master/background.js#L350 Granted the times have changed quite a bit since 2016, but users should be aware that this extension imports Google Analytics with `_trackPageview` enabled.
• (2018-08-10, v:1.6) Jay Gillibrand: Not switch windows?
  Is there any way to disable the behavior where it switches between windows? I expect switching tabs to be confined to a window. I find it really frustrating when I alt-tab to a window, then try to ctrl-tab between it's tabs only to be taken back to the previous window.
• (2018-06-25, v:1.6) Paul Mongré: Preferences no longer accessible
  Since a recent update of Chrome, "Options" is greyed out in the CLUT menu. That means hotkeys can't be set anymore.
• (2018-06-12, v:1.6) Thomas Krog: supporting a slow tab switch
  Suggestion (just a nice to have): you could make a alt+shift+w hotkey where you have fx. 5 seconds between you keypresses - so you have time to read the headline of the page and consider "is it this page I want to access?" (if you can read when the alt key is released/pressed you could make a single hotkey that supports both fast and slow users - but the chrome extensions might not have access to released and pressed for the alt key)
• (2018-06-12, v:1.6) Thomas Krog: Hotkeys
  Nice extension! Here is some basic info: - the default hotkey is alt+w - you need to press the hotkey fast if you want to go through several tabs (back in history) - in order to change hotkey you should go to "manage extensions" page click settings and "keyboard shortcuts" (Chrome does not allow you to change it to ctrl+tab)