Tab Slider

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Extension status: Featured

Description from extension meta

Keep your tabs ordered by their most recent usage.

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🔥 BOOST YOUR BROWSING EXPERIENCE! 🔥

This extension keeps your browser tabs sorted in Most Recently Used (MRU) order, from left to right — just like the way apps are organized on desktop operating systems when you use Cmd/Alt+Tab. Tab Slider brings this behavior to Chrome. Try it out!

How it works:

- If you stay on a tab for more than 1 second (by default), it will "slide" to the leftmost position;
- This keeps your most recently used tabs ordered from left to right;
- Thanks to this order, pressing Ctrl+Tab switches you to the next most recently used tab;
- Pinned tabs slide in the opposite direction (left to right). This is intentional — it allows seamless switching between your most recently used pinned tabs and normal tabs using keyboard shortcuts:
- Ctrl+Shift+Tab switches to the most recently used pinned tab;
- Ctrl+Tab switches back to the most recently used normal tab;

You can customize the reordering delay and the maximum number of reordered tabs in the extension’s settings; newly opened active tabs immediately appear on the left.

Once you get used to it, this way of managing tabs will feel completely natural and intuitive 🪄

Latest reviews

Peter Shute 2025-03-04: I liked it, but today Chrome has disabled it because "it doesn't follow best practices for Chrome extensions". Is it going to be upgraded?
music.review 2024-05-26: Very good. But why havent you ported it to Microsoft Edge? I would love to have it on my work laptop :(
The A Man 2023-03-22: One of THE BEST, if not THE BEST extension ever. Raised a feature request on the Vivaldi forum for this very feature a couple days ago; nobody responded; was looking for an Alt-Tab style tab switcher for the browse instead, and found THIS! At first was hesitant, since there always are a bunch of tabs opened on the leftmost side of my windows which I won't want repositioned, and then saw that one could exclude pinned tabs from the rearranging behaviour! This extension is JUST PERFECT! If only there was a similar app for Windows, to sort the windows 10/11 taskbar icons too; sure, the Alt-Tab and Win-Tab task switchers are great, but they're not always passively/silently visible like the taskbar icons are, and are a click or a shortcut away too... Nevermind. Anyway, keep up the good work, buddy; I was so sad the past few days that this feature wasn't there, and you just made me so so so happy!!! Love you.
The A Man 2023-03-22: One of THE BEST, if not THE BEST extension ever. Raised a feature request on the Vivaldi forum for this very feature a couple days ago; nobody responded; was looking for an Alt-Tab style tab switcher for the browse instead, and found THIS! At first was hesitant, since there always are a bunch of tabs opened on the leftmost side of my windows which I won't want repositioned, and then saw that one could exclude pinned tabs from the rearranging behaviour! This extension is JUST PERFECT! If only there was a similar app for Windows, to sort the windows 10/11 taskbar icons too; sure, the Alt-Tab and Win-Tab task switchers are great, but they're not always passively/silently visible like the taskbar icons are, and are a click or a shortcut away too... Nevermind. Anyway, keep up the good work, buddy; I was so sad the past few days that this feature wasn't there, and you just made me so so so happy!!! Love you.
tabliqat chi 2022-07-06: I admire the work you have done Nikita and I know you put time and effort on this, so thank you very much. However, this can get easily confusing because you sometimes only visit a tab "to know what it is" and no certain delay can work for all cases. I liked it too when I installed it, but soon I realized it wasn't what I fancied. Maybe an extension that allows me send a tab to the first in the tabs order "manually" will do better. But in general, I know this is free software and I thank a lot. This was just an honest friendly message/comment/feedback. ☺
tabliqat chi 2022-07-06: I admire the work you have done Nikita and I know you put time and effort on this, so thank you very much. However, this can get easily confusing because you sometimes only visit a tab "to know what it is" and no certain delay can work for all cases. I liked it too when I installed it, but soon I realized it wasn't what I fancied. Maybe an extension that allows me send a tab to the first in the tabs order "manually" will do better. But in general, I know this is free software and I thank a lot. This was just an honest friendly message/comment/feedback. ☺
Pleurat Permabear 2021-11-04: I can't get to the settings of the app if I press on the extension it says no info needed and I can't press on it
Boef Permabear 2021-11-04: I can't get to the settings of the app if I press on the extension it says no info needed and I can't press on it
ˑ 2020-10-15: В отличие от конкурента, работает с закрепленными вкладками тоже!
Adam Jake 2020-08-11: Great. I was missing this feature since i left opera
Adam Jake 2020-08-11: Great. I was missing this feature since i left opera
Igor Petrovic 2019-08-21: Really nice idea and it works really good. Do you think you can implement an option to have the tabs sorted on the right? Thanks for your work, cheers.
Igor Petrovic 2019-08-21: Really nice idea and it works really good. Do you think you can implement an option to have the tabs sorted on the right? Thanks for your work, cheers.
Marc Bear 2018-06-08: Makes web browsing so much more intuitive!
Marc Bear 2018-06-08: Makes web browsing so much more intuitive!
Dmitry Torshin 2018-04-13: Such wow! Can't understand, how I lived without it. I used CTRL+TAB MRU extension. But this much intuitive. You always see tab order.
Dmitry Torshin 2018-04-13: Such wow! Can't understand, how I lived without it. I used CTRL+TAB MRU extension. But this much intuitive. You always see tab order.
林东吴 2018-01-29: 一直想让浏览器能像 VSCode 那样快速切换到最近在用的页面，这样做一件事的时候可以快速切去参考然后无脑切回来。不得不说这个应用做得比 VSCode 和火狐都更好，因为它还留出了一个一秒的等待时间，这样就有更多微操余地了，好评！
Scott MacDonald 2018-01-16: Great extension, simple and works as advertised. It takes an hour or so to get used to it and then you just know where your tabs are and it really helps productivity.
Scott MacDonald 2018-01-16: Great extension, simple and works as advertised. It takes an hour or so to get used to it and then you just know where your tabs are and it really helps productivity.
Nikita Savchenko 2017-11-05: I got used to this extension so much that now I can't browse the net without it.
Nikita Savchenko 2017-11-05: I got used to this extension so much that now I can't browse the net without it.

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