Issue 162519 in chromium: Ctrl+Tab MRU behavior is missing!

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Status: Unconfirmed
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Labels: Area-UI Pri-2 Via-Wizard Type-Bug OS-Mac

New issue 162519 by abod...@gmail.com: Ctrl+Tab MRU behavior is missing!
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=162519

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_2)
AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.64 Safari/537.11

Steps to reproduce the problem:
This is a refresh of bugs:
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=5569 and
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=109193

The first one has been closed in 2009, second one in jan 2012 and
(probably) not reviewed since, but it is still broken!

Since 2009 ALL major browsers (except for chromium) have implemented MRU
tab switching behaviour as a default one.

1. Open 3 new tabs
2. Click on first tab
3. Press CTRL+TAB to switch to second tab
4. Depress CTRL.
5. Press CTRL+TAB to switch to the first tab

What is the expected behavior?
The first tab is selected again, because it has been selected before.

What went wrong?
The third tab is selected (not MRU) instead!

Did this work before? No

Chrome version: 23.0.1271.64 Channel: stable
OS Version: OS X 10.8.2

Request for further review and implementation.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Updates:
Status: Untriaged
Labels: -Type-Bug Type-Feature

Comment #1 on issue 162519 by meh...@chromium.org: Ctrl+Tab MRU behavior is
missing!
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=162519

Marking as a feature request.

Please note, that this was an wontfix a while ago (issue 5569).

You can try this as a workaround:

1) Install
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/flst-chrome/ajnianifcggmdojhnmjichjmnjpplcha

2) Go to chrome://extensions/

3) Configure a command for this extension/action e.g.: ALT-A

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #2 on issue 162519 by abod...@gmail.com: Ctrl+Tab MRU behavior is
missing!
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=162519

Yes, in 2009 to be exact.

That workaround is silly and extension API does not allow to replace the
default behavior.

It's a must-have feature strangely missing from chrome with no real
explanation and a multitude of angry users - see bug #5569, who starred,
commented upon in various languages and reported it as major reason for not
switching to chromium as primary browser.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Updates:
Status: Duplicate
Mergedinto: 5569

Comment #3 on issue 162519 by rse...@chromium.org: Ctrl+Tab MRU behavior is
missing!
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=162519

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[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #4 on issue 162519 by ja...@threeworlds.com.au: Ctrl+Tab MRU

behavior is missing!
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=162519

how do the people at google switch between two tabs of 20-30 opened tabs.
press ctrl-tab 20 times to get back to the tab you were just working in?
why MRU is not the default is beyond me.
I would love to hear an argument as to why "next tab" is better than "last
tab" in any use case senario.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #5 on issue 162519 by abod...@gmail.com: Ctrl+Tab MRU behavior is
missing!
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=162519

@rsesek:

This is NOT a duplicate, because the old bug has been closed and the
problem still exists!

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #6 on issue 162519 by jayz...@gmail.com: Ctrl+Tab MRU behavior is
missing!
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=162519

This is likely one of those simple features that the open source community
(Chrome is Google's layer on top) overlooked, or not glamorous enough to
work on. It's like having a powerful sports car without cup-holders, a
heater, or a radio. They may be simple & boring but necessary.

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Comment #7 on issue 162519 by emaka...@gmail.com: Ctrl+Tab MRU behavior is
missing!
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=162519

Sorry, Google: I am using Firefox until you give an option to have MRU tab
switching.

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Comment #10 on issue 162519 by loure...@gmail.com: Ctrl+Tab MRU behavior
is missing!
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=162519

Modern browsers and OS (like Alt+Tab of Windows) have this feature. I
wonder what Google saw to deliberately don't implement this. Microsoft had
invested millions of dollars in usability research to define the MRU as the
default behaviour of Alt+Tab - one of the most used mechanisms of Windows
(the most used OS in the world). So Google have this "brilliant" idea to
implement a dumb mechanism to switch tabs? I call this behaviour of "dumb"
because several softwares call the MRU a "smart" behaviour. It is a joke?
Or the Chrome team delegate this decision to a trainee? If its a copyright
matter I will understand, but so why not allow the user extensions to
override the Ctrl+Tab? Next year I will try Chrome again, but if this basic
behaviour has not implemented I will give a try only the next-next year.
And as a CIO, I won't allow any of the +600 pcs of company install this
piece of garbage. This is a shame Google, a shame.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #11 on issue 162519 by abod...@gmail.com: Ctrl+Tab MRU behavior is
missing!
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=162519

Well said ... this bug is so old that I presume that's a deliberate act by
chromium team. The original bug #5569 has almost 500 critical comments so
far, starred by almost 700 people!!! ... and they still don't care.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #12 on issue 162519 by romain.f...@gmail.com: Ctrl+Tab MRU behavior
is missing!
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=162519

As a programmer, I really don'understand why it is such a problem and
honestly the explanation on the help page isn't very useful:

"While there is great demand for an MRU-ordered switcher, we've so far been
unable to find an MRU switcher that makes sense beyond the first three most
recent tabs, or one that works well with background-created tabs."
-- http://www.chromium.org/user-experience/tabs

Seriously...?



I also tried the extension Ctrl+Tab MRU, but it happens to not work on
Linux neither...
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ctrl%2Btab-mru/ialfjajikhdldpgcfglgndennidgkhik

At least (and I'm very not fond of this solution), allow the extension to
override these shortcuts.