<![CDATA[bring back old tab cycle order]]>For control+tab key, the new Opera has adopted a tab cycle order from other browsers (Firefox, Chromium) which I argue was a bad move.

Old Opera behavior:

  • ctrl+tab cycles tabs back to most recently viewed
  • subsequent hits goes to tabs you viewed even earlier

New behavior:

  • ctrl+tab cycles to the tab visually on the right of the current one

Rationale on why I like the old behavior:

  • tabs that are closer to each other in time are closer to each other in number of key strokes
  • allows you to quickly go back and forth between two most recent tabs which, at least to me, is a very common use case

Rationale on why I dislike the new behavior:

  • hitting ctrl+tab generally jumps to some old tabs which I don't currently care of
  • prevents my old workflow (subjective!)
]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/6908/bring-back-old-tab-cycle-orderRSS for NodeFri, 10 Apr 2026 13:26:51 GMTSun, 07 Dec 2014 11:08:57 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to bring back old tab cycle order on Sun, 07 Dec 2014 12:11:59 GMT]]>This discussion can be closed. I couldn't find a way to do it myself.

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Press Ctrl + F1 or set the activation order flag in opera://flags to use Ctrl + Tab.

Thanks a lot. I didn't know it was possible to enable this.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/60766https://forums.opera.com/post/60766Sun, 07 Dec 2014 12:05:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to bring back old tab cycle order on Sun, 07 Dec 2014 11:49:57 GMT]]>Press Ctrl + F1 or set the activation order flag in opera://flags to use Ctrl + Tab.

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