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Most Recent Used Tab Stack

MRU Tab Stack — auto-move your most recently used tab to the front or back; works with pinned tabs and tab groups.

Users301Current public install base
Rating4.9Store average score
Reviews17Public review volume
Manifest versionV3Extension platform version
7-day growth-16Net users gained this week
7-day growth rate-5.05%Relative weekly velocity
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Version2.0.3
ManifestV3
Size33.52KiB
Languages1English (United States)
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MRU Tab Stack helps you stay focused by keeping your most recently used tab within easy reach. When you switch to a tab, MRU Tab Stack can automatically move it to the front (or back) of the tab strip so you spend less time hunting for it. It respects pinned tabs and Chrome tab groups, and works with the keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Tab by default).

Features

- Auto-move the most recently used tab to the front or end of the tab strip

- Works with pinned tabs and Chrome tab groups

- Customizable delay and ordering in Options

- Keyboard shortcut support (default: Ctrl+Tab)

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Store average score4.9Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text
Synced text average4.9Average computed only from synced review bodies below
Reviews with text13Synced review bodies
Total ratings / reviews17Chrome Web Store public rating/review count

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Di2025年12月1日
5

perfection. just what i was looking for

Version 2.0.3Language en
Burke Mamlin2025年9月10日
5

I love this extension and couldn't imagine using Chrome (or any browser) without it! Without any effort or thought, you end up naturally with tabs sorted left to right from newest to oldest. I spend far less time trying the find the tab I want, since it's almost always in the first few tabs.

Version 2.0.2Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
David Brick2025年3月17日
5

Oh, too bad. I thought I had a winner. This is incompatible with Chrome's newer tab grouping functions, which I have come to depend upon heavily. If you click on a tab within a group with this extension installed, it will actually remove the tab from the group as it shifts it to the top of the stack. It's almost like the developers of Chrome are actively working against having the same sort of Ctrl-Tab functionality that Firefox has built-in. If you're not using the Tab Groups in Chrome, then this is a great little extension. It seems to work properly and quickly.

Version 1.7Language en
David Riebenbauer2024年9月27日
5

Pretty much essential to make chrome usable.

Version 1.5Language en
Günther Bosch2024年8月24日
5

Update 2024-08-18 Chrome is bitching about "This extension may soon no longer be supported". Any plans to migrate the extension to manifest v3 or whatever is needed to keep it running? ------ 2018-06-11 I LOVE IT! I just found out that it accepts decimal values for the Delay!! 0.5 sec worked best for me. Great for guys like me who step quickly through the tabs and dont want to wait for the sorting. :) UPDATE: After 5 years this is still the first extension I add whenever I get hands on a vanilla browser. Never had an issue. I hope this extension continues to work. Or companies understand that MRU (Most Recently Used) Features are great. I guess some UX Experts are still not convinced.

Version 1.5Language en
Craig Williams2024年1月26日
5

If you're looking for a solution to make CTRL+TAB observe the MRU order, this is what you need. All the other extensions to achieve this will take you down the rabbit hole of custom key bindings, because Chrome does not allow you to re-assign CTRL+TAB. This works around that mess by re-ordering the tabs (instead of hi-jacking the key binding) and works beautifully. Thank-you Brandon!

Version 1.5Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Gary Williams2022年8月9日
5

I don't understand why more people don't use this extension. It does what it says, which is life changing for my mess of tabs.

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Ed Cottingham2018年7月29日
5

This extension is (cyber) life-changing, for me! I had been using it for several years under the simple name, "Tab Stack," unless I am confused. I acquired a new MacBook Pro a year or so ago and mostly neglected the new machine although I did notice that my most recently used tabs were not sliding to the left. I only tolerated this because of the occasional use of the machine. I have finally embraced this extra 1.5 lbs of kit and started carrying the Pro machine and was maddened by the disappearance of this feature. Today, I got it sorted (Chrome, myself, and the tabs). I gather that we got a renaming somewhere along the line, perhaps in adjusting to Chrome updates. Anyway, IT IS BACK! I cannot imagine why the world has not swarmed to this and Google paid Brandon about $25 million to incorporate it in standard Chrome. I remember the day I first got it...I was only looking for something to allow me to toggle between tabs, as I had done in the Windows world, ALL THE TIME. For the first five minutes, I thought that the whole sliding thing was, well, weird. And then, **EUREKA** ...weird and wonderful! Thanks so much, Brandon.

Language en
Yuriy Mann2018年1月7日
4

Great solution, but would be even better if timeout could be less than 1s and no switching occured until Ctrl is released. Added respective comment in the Support section.

Language en
ВАСЯ пупкин2017年12月28日
5

Господи! Как же долго я его искал! Lightweight and speed thing! Thank you, autor, for this! *****

Language ru