Tab order when switching tabs using Ctrl+Tab

Discussion in 'Internet Explorer' started by Jonathan S. Schneider, Feb 1, 2006.

  1. It would be great if switching between multiple tabs using the Ctrl+Tab
    keyboard shortcut (when 3 or more tabs are open) would work the same way with
    respect to tab order as Alt+Tab works when switching between applications.

    When using Alt+Tab to switch between applications, the application activated
    is the most-recently-used application; so, for example, if I have
    applications A, B, C, and D open with application A being currently active
    and I Alt+Tab once and application B becomes active, then when I Alt+Tab a
    second time, the application that becomes active is A (not C).

    In the same way, it would be nice if I have tabs open named A, B, C, D, then
    if I Ctrl+Tab repeatedly (releasing both keys after each switch), it would
    take me between tabs A and B. Under the current behavior (with yesterday's
    IE 7 "Preview Beta 2" release, v7.0.5296.0), if I switch from A to B and then
    want to go back to A, I have to tab through all other open tabs before I get
    all the way back around to A.

    Thanks for considering my suggestion!

    click "I Agree" in the message pane.
    Jonathan S. Schneider, Feb 1, 2006
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  2. I second this. Ctrl+Tab running through the list left to right is really
    useless and often takes longer than moving my hand to the mouse and clicking
    the tab I want.

    I would have switched to firefox long ago when it came out if its tabbing
    used the alt+tab switching convention. It didn't, and it was painful. I'm
    disappointed to see that the IE7 beta2 switches between tabs the same way
    firefox does. Hopefully this will be changed.

    It would also be nice if perhaps the quick tab feature was made a little
    more lightweight and integrated with the ctrl+tab shortcut in a similar way
    to windows alt+tab UI. That is, pop up a window of the open tabs when the
    user hits ctrl+tab and holds ctrl.
    Ian William James Halliday, Feb 27, 2006
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  3. Jonathan S. Schneider, Mar 30, 2006
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