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Switch back to the previously active tab using the keyboard.
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Switch to the previously active tab (last tab) by pressing Ctrl+Q, or clicking the Previous Tab icon.
You can change the keyboard shortcut by visiting chrome://extensions/shortcuts .
Chrome does not allow any extensions to use Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+` as keyboard shortcuts.
The supported keys are Alt, Ctrl, Cmd along with:
A-Z, 0-9, Comma, Period, Home, End, PageUp, PageDown, Space, Insert, Delete, Arrow keys (Up, Down, Left, Right) and the Media Keys (MediaNextTrack, MediaPlayPause, MediaPrevTrack, MediaStop).
Donations are appreciated at donate.previoustab.com
Latest reviews
- (2025-07-10) Jessy Kate Schingler: it was a great minimum viable extension - just did one thing and did it well. stopped working recently on arc browser (chromium based).
- (2025-07-08) Muhammad Saleh: It is amazing , but recently it has stopped working , please fix it
- (2025-06-17) Abin John: One of my favourites. I always install this whenever I set up a Google Profile in a new machine.
- (2025-05-01) Mitch Proulx: Good extension - would be perfect if you allowed Ctrl + Tab
- (2025-04-28) Vardhit Chandra: been looking for this exact function
- (2025-04-13) Lyubomir: Such a little thing but so much useful!
- (2025-04-07) Kamalesh P: Thanks for making it free.
- (2025-03-29) Kevin Hang: PERFECT!!!
- (2025-03-07) Mama Bear Haven: Thank you so much for making this. As a long time Firefox user, the lack of this feature always kept me away from Chrome. It blows my mind Chrome has not added this functionality.
- (2025-03-03) Adrian: Works great! <3
- (2025-02-16) Ajay Singh Thakurathi: Convenient and simple to switch to previous visited tab.
- (2025-01-28) Michael Iles: Simple and works.
- (2024-12-16) Yvan Joyce Carreon: Amazing!! thank you!!
- (2024-12-04) Valentin Varga: Simply just perfect
- (2024-11-26) Brett Attee: I've wanted this feature for a long time ... this is a simple and perfect solution!
- (2024-11-19) Larry Mb7C: So simple and so indispensable. I use it ALL the time, especially filling out a form and looking up the info in another tab. I had to create another Chrome user which no longer had this extension and then I realized how much I need it.
- (2024-11-16) *: One of the things that divides browsing experience into before and after.
- (2024-11-14) Wayne Point: GOAT of tab plugins, huge timesaver.
- (2024-10-22) Devon Mizar: Amazing extension that should be a default feature. It is fantastic when looking things up, or inputting data.
- (2024-09-19) Edward: I have been loving this extension, but recently it has stopped working for me
- (2024-09-15) Marko Avramovic: I've been using this for years. Time to say, thank you! :)
- (2024-08-22) Aleksandr Ivin: Thank you!
- (2024-07-26) Andriy Lytvyn: Works great. But sometimes when I press cmd + A, it also switches to previous tab for some reason. Any ideas how to fix it?
- (2024-07-17) Deathrape2001: $CAM!! Does NOTHING = not even a configuration window =P
- (2024-05-21) Martino Playa: It works perfectly! I recall using a similar extension with the same functionality before it broke. I had also set Ctrl + Q as a shortcut.
- (2024-05-02) M P: Doesn't seem to work at all in Kiwi Browser for Android. No affect whatsover.
- (2024-03-25) marko avramovic: Works perfect!
- (2024-03-12) Dylan: Good job, but chrome recently released the tab group. The current tab switching does not support tab switching within a group.
- (2024-03-02) FamKis: Awesome! I have been looking for something like this for years.
- (2024-03-01) Rok Pergarec: Not working with "saved group tabs" feature. Otherwise great utility extension
- (2024-02-27) Ivan Ari Di Paolo: Not working on the new update of grouped tabs with save groups active.
- (2024-02-22) Michele Wonder: Totally love this extension and simply can't work without it. Found an issue with recent Chrome Updates. Stops working when using Google Chrome Tab Groups that are saved. If I don't save the tab group I can Previous Tab per my keyboard shortcut, however the second I turn on Save Tab Group it stops working.
- (2024-02-08) Hussein Alkahli: Thanks , your are smarter then google chrome devs
- (2024-02-03) techy: perfect for my worklow. easy toggle between 2 tabs
- (2024-01-16) Miika Ampe: Works as expected, fast, easy, just like a setting was switched in chrome. Bob Dylan reviewed saying, "It seems it no longer switches between tabs if they're in different tab groups." I just tested and it does switch between tab groups, and between one tab group and a tab outside of a group. Since they said it "stopped working" I can't say for sure it'll stay but for me, at least so far, it works perfectly! Suggestion: It would be great if there were a function where we could press another button to switch to the third-last-used tab and the ones before it, possibly using the 3 button then 4 button and so on, or just one to keep switching backwards in history.
- (2024-01-04) Nick Thompson: A needed function. Works just as expected. Thank you to the developers for making this.
- (2023-12-05) Bob Dolan: This used to work great, but it stopped working. It seems it no longer switches between tabs if they're in different tab groups. Anyone else finding that?
- (2023-10-03) Chris Paton: Couldn't use Chrome (or Edge) without this. Does one thing, does it well.
- (2023-10-03) Chris Paton: Couldn't use Chrome (or Edge) without this. Does one thing, does it well.
- (2023-08-29) Adriano Silveira: Super simple but we can't change the shortcut, if the users prefer with CTRL + TAB? It is default for Firefox and other browser as opera.
- (2023-08-29) Adriano Silveira: Super simple but we can't change the shortcut, if the users prefer with CTRL + TAB? It is default for Firefox and other browser as opera.
- (2023-08-16) Core Jel: Very Good.
- (2023-08-16) Core Jel: Very Good.
- (2023-08-05) Goran Angelkovski: This is very useful extension but unfortunately doesn't work when you have two separate Chrome windows... Seems like it works within one instance of Chrome and doesn't remember the "previous" tab in the other browser instance... I hope this can be fixed.
- (2023-08-05) Goran Angelkovski: This is very useful extension but unfortunately doesn't work when you have two separate Chrome windows... Seems like it works within one instance of Chrome and doesn't remember the "previous" tab in the other browser instance... I hope this can be fixed.
- (2023-06-27) Renato Gyuris: No permissions, free. Thank you!
- (2023-06-27) Renato Gyuris: No permissions, free. Thank you!
- (2023-06-26) Jiahao W: Didn't work at the beginning. I was wondering why because it's 5-star and everyone in the comments were satisfied. Took a while and it suddenly started to work. Okay, cool!
- (2023-06-26) Jiahao W: Didn't work at the beginning. I was wondering why because it's 5-star and everyone in the comments were satisfied. Took a while and it suddenly started to work. Okay, cool!
- (2023-03-28) Nikolaus Ringe: this one is working so far
Statistics
Installs
20,000
history
Category
Rating
4.7519 (129 votes)
Last update / version
2024-07-11 / 1.2.0
Listing languages
en