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⚡ Tab Navigator (move-between-tabs)

Manifest V3 Zero Permissions License MIT ShellCheck Status Latest Release

Lightweight, zero-permission Chrome extension to navigate and manage tabs using intuitive keyboard shortcuts.


✨ Features

  • 🚀 Zero-Overhead: Event-driven Service Worker with near-instant execution and no content scripts injected into web pages.
  • 🔒 100% Private: Requires zero permissions (permissions: []). Does not track, read URLs, or collect any user data.
  • 🔄 Cyclic Navigation: Seamless circular tab switching (from last tab to first, and vice versa).
  • ⌨️ Intuitive Directional Shortcuts: Navigate using standard arrow keys with modifier keys.

⌨️ Default Shortcuts

Action Command Default Shortcut
Previous tab (Left) switch-left Alt + Shift + ←
Next tab (Right) switch-right Alt + Shift + →
Open new tab & focus open-and-focus-new-tab Alt + Shift + ↑
Close current tab close-actual-tab Alt + Shift + ↓

Tip

Customize Shortcuts: You can change any shortcut combination anytime by navigating to chrome://extensions/shortcuts in your Chrome address bar.


📦 Installation

Option 1: From GitHub Releases (Recommended)

  1. Download the latest move-between-tabs.zip from the Releases page.
  2. Unzip the downloaded file into a folder on your computer.
  3. Open Chrome and go to chrome://extensions/.
  4. Enable Developer mode in the top right corner.
  5. Click Load unpacked and select the unzipped folder.

Option 2: Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/JuanFerber/move-between-tabs.git

Then load the cloned folder in chrome://extensions/ following steps 3-5 above.


🤝 Contributing

Contributions, issues, and feature requests are welcome! Feel free to check the issues page.


📄 License

This project is open-source and licensed under the MIT License.

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