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thePaulV / Most-Recent-Tab

Firefox addon that adds a keyboard shortcut to switch back to your most recently selected tab. Useful to alternate between two tabs and to easily go back to your last tab if you switch to another briefly.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/most-recent-tab/
Mozilla Public License 2.0
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[Feature request] 2-3 additional history/memory states #13

Closed SHHSSH closed 1 year ago

SHHSSH commented 1 year ago

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This is up there with one of my most used macros, however, what would potentially make it incredible, would be a couple more history/memory states that offer different hotkey macros.

Say for example I use, F10 for the "Most recent tab" However, in FF shortcuts, the user is offered the option to hotkey a few other states. E.g; F1 - Second most recent tab F2 - Third most recent tab F4 - Fourth most recent tab (perhaps unnecessary, perhaps utilised as a placeholder/origin tab backtrack)

Have really loved the productivity of this Add-on. Thanks.

SHHSSH commented 1 year ago

This may be complicated to grasp from a coding aspect, though I believe if you store the original tab from the initial command instantiation, then that becomes the "origin" tab.

thePaulV commented 1 year ago

Hi @SHHSSH , version 3.1 implements this idea. It may need some time before the update appears on AMO. Once it's live there, you can force an update by going to the Add-on manager, clicking the gear, and picking "Check for Updates".

By default there are no keys set, you'll have to go to the Add-on manager, click the gear, and select "Manage Extension Shortcuts" to pick your own keyboard shortcuts.

SHHSSH commented 1 year ago

Wow, thank you.

SHHSSH commented 1 year ago

@thePaulV

Learning to use the second & third effectively is such a trip, lol.

thePaulV commented 1 year ago

@SHHSSH Hah! I can believe it, I tested it a bit and certainly it's a bigger mental jump than just toggling back to the last one. Hopefully you're finding it useful.

SHHSSH commented 8 months ago

@thePaulV Paul would you have any tips or suggestions one may find useful when attempting to implement a similar functionality for windows' alt+tab or its variations? I use two things atm, one a mere AHK script for universal desktop application listing, and a second program called "Alt-Tab terminator", which has modifiable settings and only shows the current desktop.

I guess what I'm asking is if perhaps you could imagine this functionality in an operating system too? Or if know of any possibility whereas it has been achieved.

Thanks.

SHHSSH commented 8 months ago

Btw, I have thoroughly utilised this feature.

I have macros on my mouse that synergise with it perfectly to where I've muscle-memoried it for its use in FF.