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Effortlessly and instantly toggle between tabs with a Windows Alt+Tab like interface and hotkeys.
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Tab Switcher Ultra displays a rich UI directly in the browser that gives you an overview of your open tabs, sorted by last visited, and allows you to instantly switch to them using either keyboard or mouse.
To launch the UI, simply hit Alt+Q, and while keeping Alt pressed, move the selector around with the arrow keys, or one-handed with Q to move to the right, and Shift+Q to move to the left. Once you let go of the Alt key, the selected tab will become active. You can also use a mouse and simply click on the tab you want to jump to.
*New Update*: All shortcuts are now customizable!
The default first selected tab when the UI launches will be the previous tab you visited, so if you quickly hit (and release) Alt+Q, you'll jump to your previous tab without using the UI.
You can also close tabs via the UI by either hitting the Delete key on the tab you want to close, by clicking on the X-close button for the tab, or by hovering over it and pressing the middle-mouse button (mouse wheel button).
Not all pages allow UI's to be rendered in them! For instance, Chrome setting-pages, or even the Chrome Web Store (this page!). In these cases, hitting Alt+Q will simply jump to your previous tab.
Page previews/screenshots are currently handled like this: When a new page loads, the extension will capture the visible page after 2 seconds. This is the only capture that will be done while on that page unless you launch the UI, in which case a new screen capture is performed before the UI is displayed, in order to get the latest state of the page.
Tab Switcher Ultra is extremely optimized and performant, is completely ad-free, has zero analytical tools or user-tracking, and usage is 100% private. It's also open-source, is made in Norway/Europe following EU principles, and is made because it's something I've really been wanting for myself, and thought others might like it too! 😀
If you experience any bugs or have feature/change requests, please do not hesitate to get in touch! Links are in the extension menu.
Latest reviews
- (2025-05-23) Mabel: Works super well! Microsoft Edge has this behavior on Windows and I wish other browsers / operating systems had it. The only complaint is that I wish there was a way to limit the number of tabs visible like you can in Windows, but this still works really well.
- (2025-05-22) Hary: Functional, useful and very fast. I recommend everyone who likes to open multiple cards.
- (2025-05-21) Тодор Павлов: Great extension - working flawlessly. The only thing now is to get used to using it. Off-topic: Google should disable the ability to give low ratings without an explanation.
- (2025-05-21) cmdprompt1385 intercodes: Functional! Fun! I love this.
- (2025-05-21) Daniel Santos: Useful extension! Key placement is perfect. Maybe you will be confused with Alt+Tab at first but in time you will get used to using Alt+Q. 10/10
- (2025-03-19) Henrique Matos: 10/10 Chrome extension. I've waited for this for far too long; it should be Chrome's default behavior.
Statistics
Installs
349
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Rating
4.5 (8 votes)
Last update / version
2025-06-14 / 1.1.0
Listing languages
en