Is there a keyboard shortcut to switch between tabs in Firefox?

Question

Is there a shortcut key to switch back and forth between two tabs in Firefox?

For example, you can press CTRL + 1 to select the first tab, CTRL + 2 to select the second. What I want to do is switch between the current tab and the last selected tab. TV remotes have a similar previous or back button that does the same thing. If you only press this one button it will switching solely between two channels each time it is pressed. I see this is called a "last" button on TV remotes.

UPDATE:
I know you can move a tab to be right next to each other as tab 1 and tab 2 and then use ctrl + 1 and ctrl + 2 but I'm talking about a switch shortcut.

I'm using Mac.

score 9 · Answer 1 · answered May 08 '23 at 10:42

In the latest version of firefox you need to do:

open about:config and
search and change browser.ctrlTab.sortByRecentlyUsed to true

and you're done. Now you can switch between the last two selected tabs by quickly pressing Ctrl + Tab. If you press Tab repeatedly – or keep Ctrl pressed – you can switch to other tabs too.

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 31 '15 at 10:52

In order to switch between the two last selected tabs (and to enable Windows like Alt + Tab task switching for Firefox Tabs) you need to

open about:config and
change browser.ctrlTab.previews to true

and you're done. Now you can switch between the last two selected tabs by quickly pressing Ctrl + Tab. If you press Tab repeatedly – or keep Ctrl pressed – you can switch to other tabs too. If you want to cycle the previews in reverse, just throw Shift in there as well.

score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 31 '15 at 01:19

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This should help you out Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts

As I said in my comment it can depend on the operating system you are using for Mac it is command + option + ← to go backwards and command + option + → to go forward in the stack.

answered Aug 31 '15 at 01:19

AMR

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score 2 · Answer 4 · edited Sep 22 '23 at 11:15

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Ctrl+Page Up
Ctrl+Page Down

edited Sep 22 '23 at 11:15

Toto

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answered Sep 22 '23 at 10:35

Waldemar Gałęzinowski

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 14 '23 at 14:13

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Check out the default behaviour of

Ctrl+Tab

and

Ctrl+Shift+Tab

These cycle through the open tabs in order, so if you're working on two tabs you can use these shortcuts to shift between them easily.

answered Dec 14 '23 at 14:13

chim

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Is there a keyboard shortcut to switch between tabs in Firefox?

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