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Add keyboard shortcuts to switch tabs with a Quicksilver-style search or a most recently used menu
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No mouse needed!
• Press ALT-Q (CTRL-Q on macOS)
• Type a few letters
• Press ENTER to switch to the selected tab
★ Now with support for pinyin!
You can use pinyin to more easily search for Chinese characters in web page titles and URLs.
★ Use CTRL-TAB as the keyboard shortcut
With a little extra work, you can make QuicKey respond to the Holy Grail of keyboard shortcuts: CTRL-TAB.
Learn how at https://fwextensions.github.io/QuicKey/ctrl-tab/
You can customize the shortcut keys (other than CTRL-TAB) by right-clicking the QuicKey icon and selecting Options.
★ Switch between the most recently used tabs
➤ NOTE: When first installed, QuicKey doesn't know which tabs have been
recently used, but as you use the browser, tabs will get added to the
most recently used (MRU) list.
Opening QuicKey displays a list of the last 50 tabs you've visited, in order of recency. Click a tab to switch to it, or use one of the keyboard shortcuts below to navigate the recently used tab history:
➤ To switch between the two most recent tabs:
• Press ALT-Z (CTRL-Z on macOS).
OR:
• Quickly double-press ALT-Q (CTRL-Q on macOS).
➤ To navigate farther back in the MRU list:
• Press ALT-A (CTRL-A on macOS) once to switch to the previous tab.
The QuicKey icon will invert for .75 seconds.
• Press ALT-A while the icon is inverted to switch to older tabs, once
for each tab.
• Press ALT-S to move to newer tabs.
• Pause to let the icon revert to normal.
• Press ALT-A again to switch back to the tab you initially started on.
➤ To pick a recent tab from the MRU list:
• Press the shortcut but keep holding the ALT key (CTRL key on macOS).
• Press W or ↓ to move down through the list of recent tabs.
• Press SHIFT-W or ↑ to move up.
• Release ALT to switch to the selected tab.
• You can also highlight an item with the mouse, then release ALT to
go to that tab.
Which shortcuts to use is up to you. Double-pressing ALT-Q is nice because there's just one shortcut to remember, while ALT-Z lets you switch between the two most recently used tabs very rapidly. (You can also double-click the QuicKey icon to toggle between the most recent tabs.)
ALT-A lets you navigate to even older tabs, though the timing can sometimes be finicky.
Selecting from the MRU menu by holding down the ALT key provides the closest experience to a typical ALT-TAB menu, but you need to use W instead of TAB to navigate while the menu is open.
You can change any of these shortcuts by clicking the gear icon in the menu or by right-clicking the QuicKey icon and selecting Options. Then scroll down and click "Change browser shortcuts". Look for the "Switch to the previous/next tab" shortcuts.
If you enable the option to show the number of open tabs on the QuicKey icon, the badge containing that number will change color while you navigate to older tabs, rather than the icon inverting.
★ Search for a tab quickly
Unlike other tab switchers, QuicKey uses a Quicksilver-style search algorithm to rank the results, where contiguous matches at the beginning of words are higher in the list, as are matches against capital letters. So you only have to type a few letters to quickly find the right tab.
Use keyboard shortcuts to navigate the list:
• ENTER: switch to the selected tab
• ↓ or SPACE: move down the list
• ↑ or SHIFT-SPACE: move up the list
• PG DN: page down the list
• PG UP: page up the list
• END: go to the bottom of the list
• HOME: go to the top of the list
• ESC: clear the search or close the menu
If you type more than 25 letters, which should be plenty to find the right tab, QuicKey switches to an exact string search to stay fast.
Recently used tabs get a slight boost in the search results ranking, so getting back to a tab you were just using should require typing fewer letters.
★ Customize shortcuts and other options
To customize how QuicKey behaves, click the gear icon in the menu, or right-click its icon on the toolbar and select Options. On the QuicKey options page, you can change the behavior of the SPACE and ESC keys, hide closed tabs from the search results, mark tabs in other windows with an icon, show the number of open tabs, use pinyin to search for Chinese characters, and customize many of the keyboard shortcuts described here.
If you change the keyboard shortcut for showing the QuicKey menu to something other than the default ALT-Q or if you have a non-US keyboard, you'll probably want to also change the key that's used to navigate down the list of recently used tabs (which defaults to W). For instance, if you change the menu shortcut to ALT-Z, you might want to change the navigation key to X, which is right next door. To change it, go to the Options page, click in the first keyboard shortcut picker, and press X.
If new settings have been added to QuicKey since the last time you looked at the options page, the gear icon will display a red dot to let you know.
★ Close and reopen tabs
To close the selected tab, press CTRL-W (CMD-CTRL-W on macOS). Or hover over a tab and click the X button on the right side of the menu.
When you open QuicKey, the 25 most recently closed tabs are listed below the recent tabs and shown in a faded state with a clock icon. They are also returned when you type a query, though their rank in the list of results is lower than open tabs. Click a closed tab to reopen it in its original location and with all of its browsing history intact.
If you don't want any closed tabs to be shown, open the QuicKey options page and uncheck "Include recently closed tabs in the search results". You can also remove the selected closed tab from the browser's history by pressing CTRL-W (CMD-CTRL-W on macOS) or by clicking its X button on the right side of the menu.
★ Move tabs
You can move tabs to the left or right of the current tab, making it easy to pull tabs from other windows into the current one, or to rearrange tabs without using the mouse.
• Press CTRL-[ to move the selected tab to the left of the current one.
• Press CTRL-] to move it to the right.
Include SHIFT in the shortcut to also unsuspend the tab while moving it. The CTRL key should be used on both Windows and macOS. Note that you cannot move tabs between normal and incognito windows.
★ Distinguish tabs with identical titles
A tab that has the same title as other open tabs will display a number to indicate its left-to-right position among those other tabs. For instance, if you open tabs for two different Google Drive accounts, they'll both be titled "My Drive - Google Drive". But the one on the left will show a "1" next to its title in the menu and the one on the right will show a "2". This makes it easier for you to select the tab you want when you know how they're organized in your window.
★ Search bookmarks
To find a bookmark, type "/b" and a space in the search box, then part of the bookmark's name or URL.
• Press ENTER to open it in the current tab.
• Press CTRL-ENTER (CMD-ENTER on macOS) to open it in a new tab in
the current window.
• Press SHIFT-ENTER to open it in a new window.
As soon as you type "/b ", your bookmarks will be listed in alphabetical order, in case you want to browse through them.
★ Search the browser history
To find something in the last 2000 pages of your browser history, type "/h" and a space in the search box, then part of the page's name or URL.
The same CTRL-ENTER (CMD-ENTER on macOS) and SHIFT-ENTER shortcuts will open the visited page in a new tab or window.
As soon as you type "/h ", the pages from your history will be listed in order of recency, so you can get back to a page you had recently visited without having to remember its name.
★ Delete bookmarks and history items
To delete the selected bookmark or history item, press CTRL-W (CMD-CTRL-W on macOS). Or hover over an item and click the X button on the right side of the menu. You'll be asked to confirm the deletion of bookmarks.
★ The Great Suspender integration
If you use the handy extension "The Great Suspender", then suspended tabs will look faded in the list, and the original URL is shown (not that long chrome-extension:// one you see in the location bar). That means if you search for "chrome" or "extension", you won't simply match all the suspended tabs, which is what happens in other tab search extensions.
Press SHIFT-ENTER to switch to a tab and unsuspend it in one go. Or shift-click it with the mouse.
★ Incognito mode
To switch to incognito tabs as well as normal ones, right-click the QuicKey icon and select Options from the menu. Scroll to the very bottom of the QuicKey options page and then click the "Change incognito settings" button. On the extensions page that opens, scroll down to the "Allow in incognito" option and click the toggle button next to it.
Tabs in incognito mode display the incognito icon under the page's favicon, so you can distinguish a normal tab from an incognito one with the same title.
★ Copy a URL or title
You can also copy the URL and title of the selected tab, bookmark or history item:
• Press CTRL-C (CMD-C on macOS) to copy just the URL.
• Press CTRL-SHIFT-C (CMD-SHIFT-C on macOS) to copy both the item's
title and its URL, one per line.
★ Privacy policy
When first installed, QuicKey asks for these permissions:
➤ "Read and change your browsing history on all signed-in devices"
QuicKey uses this permission to let you search the titles and URLs of
the open tabs, as well as pages from your history. The "all signed-in
devices" part is there only so that recently closed tabs can be restored
with their full history. The only time QuicKey changes your browsing
history is when you choose to delete a history item.
➤ "Read and change your bookmarks"
QuicKey uses this permission to let you search the titles and URLs of
your bookmarked pages. The only time it changes your bookmarks is when
you choose to delete one.
QuicKey can't access or manipulate the content of any pages you visit and doesn't transmit any information other than some anonymized diagnostic data.
If you right-click the QuicKey icon on the toolbar, there's a message saying "Can't read or change site's data", which is a bit misleading, since it can't read or change *any* site's data, not just the current one.
★ Support and source code
Get more information at https://fwextensions.github.io/QuicKey/
Report a bug or request a feature at https://fwextensions.github.io/QuicKey/support/
View the release history at https://fwextensions.github.io/QuicKey/releases
See the source code at https://github.com/fwextensions/QuicKey
Latest reviews
- (2025-06-18) yulong tong: Nice extension! When using `ctrl+w` search tabs, it will open selected tab in a new window if the tab was closed no matter I use `enter` or `cmd+enter`.
- (2025-05-21) Varun V: absolutely goated extension. If it was paid, i would buy it
- (2025-05-13) Christophe Pele: It works 😌 NB: On my Mac I had to set up the Ctrl-Q shortcut for the "Open alt-tab-style popup" command
- (2025-05-10) Will Ashley: Pathetic buggy trash. Literally just stops working at random times and needs to be turned off and turned back on again. Should be removed from the extension store, it's clearly unstable and poorly engineered.
- (2025-04-21) Jamie Lennox: Great stuff. But I'm wondering why the pop-up can't just close completely instead of being hidden to a new tab or window? If I close the tab that it's hidden to, the pop-up still opens perfectly quickly with the hotkey.
- (2025-04-01) Mike: It's perfect for what I need, which is to quickly swap between 2 tabs.
- (2025-03-15) Ross Yesikov: Best last tab extension. Favorite part? You can select in Options to avoid jumping to other windows. Since my email, calendar and a few other apps are set up as chrome apps, it's a lifesaver
- (2025-03-09) Mohammad Rahmani: After years I found what I wanted. Thanks a lot!!!!
- (2025-03-09) Brandon: Amazing thank you!
- (2025-01-23) Jeff State: Jan 21, 2025 update ─ still using this extension, frequently, about 3.5 years after originally posting this review: I use only two shortcuts 1) CTRL + Tab to flip between most recent two tabs 2) ALT+Q to pull up Quickey tab search box. To Developer(s): As-is, the Next Tab and Previous Tab hotkeys have a Settings toggle to show the QuicKey search box, when executing either of these hotkeys. Could you please include a Settings toggle to have the QuicKey search box appear, when zipping between two most recent tabs. The specific QuicKey option is, "Switch instantly between the two most recent tabs?" That'd be really helpful. Thanks for your ongoing development 🙏
- (2025-01-23) Jeff State: Jan 21, 2025 update ─ still using this extension, frequently, about 3.5 years after originally posting this review: I use only two shortcuts 1) CTRL + Tab to flip between most recent two tabs 2) ALT+Q to pull up Quickey tab search box. To Developer(s): As-is, the Next Tab and Previous Tab hotkeys have a Settings toggle to show the QuicKey search box, when executing either of these hotkeys. Could you please include a Settings toggle to have the QuicKey search box appear, when zipping between two most recent tabs. The specific QuicKey option is, "Switch instantly between the two most recent tabs?" That'd be really helpful. Thanks for your ongoing development 🙏
- (2025-01-20) Mohamed Zain/ Scent Strategy: May both sides of your pillow stay cold when you sleep.
- (2025-01-12) Shivshankar Sharma: work perfectly.
- (2025-01-11) Simon A: Perfect! Seriously, this is a FANTASTIC utility for navigating through my many, many chrome tabs. Mimicking Alt-Tab functionality means I had zero learning curve, and the functionality is powerful. Thank you!
- (2024-12-09) Harris Choudhry: ctrl + Q randomly stops working temporarily and I'm not sure why
- (2024-10-10) aan zaksa: Thanks. After trying out several similar extensions, this one is perfect for my needs. The only minus point is that there is no option to close the alt-tab-style popup automatically after choosing a tab from the list, so I only use the extension's menu instead.
- (2024-10-03) Ren Cee: 10-3-24 Update. Yes developer, when click on Quickey none of my couple hundred open tabs show, Quickey always show blank now. Have also tried un-installing Quickey several times, which used to work previously, but no longer in recent times at all. So a Repair option would be great.Thanks. This Quickey Ext used to be one of my top fav addons, but like others have said, it is pretty much been dead in the water for months, for me, after updates, it no longer does anything, no search function , does not show any tabs. No addon repair option like others. Quite sure Google is behind, all these update issues, just like with so many other of my fav tabs no longer work. Cannot understand why Google cannot add very vital, useful, simple, quick tabs search options like this in browser. Cheers.
- (2024-09-26) Abe Thaler: All settings under the "General" page are unclickable/unchangeable. Nothing on that page is editable. Please fix, would at least like the option to choose which settings I want...
- (2024-09-25) Davey FlackoBryant: Spies on web history, Garbage extension: Probably the worst tab based extension on the web store
- (2024-09-22) Zubair Ahmed: Why does it open in its own tab and not dropdown from the top-right like it used to, I have observed it to be a little bit slower than before
- (2024-09-20) Yassine Gherbi: Switching to next and previous tab doesn't work for me, but frankly I mostly care about switching between the last 2 tabs
- (2024-09-10) Sing Wong: became worst after 2.0
- (2024-09-09) Adrian Chmielarz: Came here to complain about the 2.0 but below the author explains how the earlier functionality is still there, just a bit tricky to find. Phew! Otherwise absolutely gigachad of an extension, my top three I can no longer live without.
- (2024-09-09) Elkin Cruz: That's a wonderful extension that you can move between tabs in wonderful way. Alt + z its a wonderful a simple funcitonality when you can switch the latest opened tabs ;) 💓💓💓
- (2024-09-09) Joni Lappalainen: If you suffer from symptoms of a chronic way-too-many-tabs-open then this plugin is the cure. It allows you to keep your wicked tabs open but now you can navigate through those tabs based on history or by search - with a push of a button.
- (2024-09-09) Dmitrii Zubchenko: It was one of my favorite extensions just before 2.0 version where release (( Please, make it optional to use the new pop-up :pray: It's really uncomfortable to have pop-up window opened all the time. I'm using multiple chrome profiles and that's really weird to see multiple pop-up windows (yours) while switching with system keys (like Alt-Tab). You ruined my day...
- (2024-08-27) peacher uni: Very amazing! But why everytime I reopen the computer , the shortkeys changes I made just get back to the default way? ------------------------------------------------------------ I just found that for everytime I use the wise care 365 to clear the computer, the shortcut changes(I made in the option page) are just gone, and I dont't know how to stop it.
- (2024-08-22) Onur Mete Kaplan, Private: Perfect little helper. The only thing is pinning ability, pinning some tabs would be great.
- (2024-08-09) DreamBuilder Team: Good one, but since it is Manifest 2 - consider switching to new tab switchers, check one named Switch Tabs Shortcut
- (2024-07-27) N Jones: One of the best extensions everrrrrrr! If you keep a ton of tabs open you need this.
- (2024-07-04) Kika Hyfont: It's a great plugin to boost your productivity 👍
- (2024-06-06) Abbas N.: Why does this require access to bookmarks?
- (2024-05-29) Cyril Mammar: Just Amazing !!!
- (2024-04-25) Hansi Hinterleyen: Not working. I made two shortcuts Prevoius Tab: Strg + Pfeil links (ctrl + arrow left) Next Tab: Strg + Pfeil rechts (ctrl + arrow right) The extension jumps random between 4-6 tabs from my 30 tabs and stops. It doesn't matter in which direction. Its not possible to jump from tab 4 to tab 5 to tab 6 ..... So its a useless extension.
- (2024-04-22) Athanasios Ladas: Hi, great extension. Would it be possible to search bookmarks folders?
- (2024-02-05) Jerry Z Cai: Godsend ! I have 100+ tabs open regularly without this I am a chicken with head cut off.
- (2024-01-28) Adriel: great tool
- (2023-08-16) Ritesh Shah: very veryu useful
- (2023-07-17) Akhlak Ur Rahman: Vivaldi background tabs all become history😢
- (2023-07-17) Akhlak Ur Rahman: Vivaldi background tabs all become history😢
- (2023-05-15) Harsh Verma: Great! I am loving it so far !!!!
- (2023-05-15) Harsh Verma: Great! I am loving it so far !!!!
- (2023-04-12) How Change: It's amazing for me! And I'm glad developer support Pinyin and which powered me a lot!
- (2023-04-12) How Change: It's amazing for me! And I'm glad developer support Pinyin and which powered me a lot!
- (2023-03-28) Bond Sun: add more items to the rencent list, please! Thanks for the great work.
- (2023-03-28) Bond Sun: add more items to the rencent list, please! Thanks for the great work.
- (2023-03-08) Hao Yao: 很棒的应用
- (2023-03-04) Chao Chen: 很棒，跟我的思路是一样的，就是不能像idea 的ctrl+e那样居中，不过也挺好用的，赞一个。
- (2022-10-04) Kevin Hwang: First time to leave a review for a chrome extension. It supports pinyin to match Chinese chars that is unique. It can be seen from many details that the author treats this extension seriously.
- (2022-10-04) Kevin Hwang: First time to leave a review for a chrome extension. It supports pinyin to match Chinese chars that is unique. It can be seen from many details that the author treats this extension seriously.
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Rating
4.5748 (127 votes)
Last update / version
2024-10-28 / 2.0.2
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