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From: glen walker
Date: Jul 11, 2018 3:59PM

I like to alternate between my two most recently used tabs in firefox by
using ctrl+tab. Similar to how I can alternate between my two most
recently used apps by using alt+tab (on a pc). But I can't get this
feature to work in firefox and it's frustrating from a keyboard user
perspective.

I used to use firefox 56 and ESR since the quantum version didn't work well
with jaws. With those versions of firefox, I could use an addon called
tabmixplus that enabled the ctrl+tab to work. It was great. I'm using
firefox 61 now (the latest non-beta update) and with firefox quantum, the
tabmixplus addon no longer works and firefox disables it as a "legacy"
addon.

However, there's an option in about:preferences (or tools > options) called
"Ctrl+Tab cycles through tabs in recently used order". It basically just
changes the "browser.ctrlTab.previews" config option from false to true.
If I have both the preferences and config options open, I can see changing
the value in one updates the other and vice versa.

But the option doesn't work for me. Ctrl+tab still just sequentially goes
through the tabs. I've tried running with all addons disabled, I've
restarted firefox, and I've rebooted. Nothing can get it to work. I was
curious if anyone uses that option.

Glen