What is the fastest way to get back to previous active tab in chrome

I use vimium in chrome,and every time I open a new tab and tend to go back to previous tab,I have to use my mouse or touch pad,Is there any trick to do so?

6 Answers

Use Chrome Vimium which provides a lot of shortcuts

• ^ Go to previously-visited tab
• T search through your open tabs
• (number+)d(u) half page down(up)

Check more Chrome Vimium Tips, Tricks

Chrome has a new built-in update called Search Tabs.

Feature includes:

• search tabs by title
• shows recently opened tabs

Shortcut key is set by default to CTRL + SHIFT + A

3

Try this: Ctrl+Shift+TAB. This will go backwards. If you want to go forward you can do this without shift.

Edit: That is a great resource on hotkeys:

2

There are different ways to switch tabs using keyboard shortcuts like:

To switch to the next tab: Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+PgDown

To switch to the previous tab: Ctrl+Shift+Tab or Ctrl+PgUp

To switch to a specific tab: Ctrl+1 to Ctrl+8

To switch to the last tab: Ctrl+9

Source:

QuicKey – The quick tab switcher

Does the job beautifully.

You can use Ctrl + [Tab index] that starts from 1, In your case: Ctrl+2

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