I am trying to find out if there's a way to toggle -back and forth- between two tabs in Chrome on a Mac.
I have found the Command-9 shortcut, which will toggle to the previous tab I was in once, but when I select the Command-9 shortcut again, nothing happens. Ideally this shortcut would always take you back to whatever previous tab you were on rather than only working once.
Any suggestions on how to accomplish this?
Are you trying to automate this for a kiosk? If so, this can be accomplished using an AppleScript:
tell application "Google Chrome"
activate
repeat
tell application "System Events"
keystroke tab using control down
delay 2
end tell
end repeat
end tell
You will likely get prompt allow Accessibility.
If you are just trying to do this with a keyboard shortcut, user Control Tab or Shift Control Tab.
Hope this helps.
Servant of Cats user: Thanks for sharing the Chrome keyboard shortcuts. I do not see a shortcut that will cycle between you last used tab.
I found this extension to achieve what I need, but I can only install it on my person computer. It isn't approved for work.
Ideally Apple would add this as a native function!
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"How to continuously toggle between two Chrome tabs on Mac?: I am trying to find out if there's a way to toggle -back and forth- between two tabs in Chrome on a Mac. I have found the Command-9 shortcut, which will toggle to the previous tab I was in once, but when I select the Command-9 shortcut again, nothing happens. Ideally this shortcut would always take you back to whatever previous tab you were on rather than only working once. Any suggestions on how to accomplish this?"
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Tab Management:
A. Scrolling Tabs in Chrome:
B. Opening with Certain Tabs:
Correction and update to my earlier post... Realized that Command-9 actually takes you to the last tab in your series of tabs in the Chrome window you're in. So, that doesn't actually get me half-way to what I need.
The equivalent to this on Windows is their ALT+TAB action. This was one of the most useful productivity features I was devastated to lose when I moved to a Mac.
@TheLittles Thanks, however I am not trying to move one tab forward and one tab backward. I am trying to toggle back to the previous tab I was on, regardless of it's position in the Chrome Window.
For example, if I had 10 tabs open in a single Chrome Window, and was on tab #2 in the Window, but then clicked to tab #8, when I selected this hypothetic shortcut, I would be taken back to tab #2. And if I selected this shortcut again, I would be taken back to tab #8.
I don't use Chrome so I'm not sure but in Safari control + tab and shift + control + tab moves you forward and backward, respectively, in the displayed tabs, regardless of the number of tabs you have. Might be worth a try.
"For example, if I had 10 tabs open in a single Chrome Window, and was on tab #2 in the Window, but then clicked to tab #8, when I selected this hypothetic shortcut, I would be taken back to tab #2. And if I selected this shortcut again, I would be taken back to tab #8."
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Try Creating your OWN Shortcuts:
Oddly, these shortcuts I provided you with aren't even metioned in the Googles' own shortcuts link provided in Servant of Cats' reply. So, Google is probably being picky. It might a shortcut you can create as a preference, but I'm not certain how do create one, without digging deeper into it.
Apple Support Links About Shortcuts and Creating/Modifying Them:
Thanks, but no, I'm not trying to automate for a kiosk. I'm just trying to get a function to work on my personal mac that is a native function on Windows.
How to continuously toggle between two Chrome tabs on Mac?
