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Alternate Tab Order

Established publisherManifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 15 Oct 2026

Opens new tabs at the end, and snaps back to view the opener tab under certain conditions

Users
6,000
0 in 30 days
Rating
4.3 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
40
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#13K
#11K among extensions
Version
1.1.0
updated 10 Aug 2024

Users

monthly, 3 years
1,0005,50010KAug 2023Apr 2025Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 6,000 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 3 years
102540Aug 2023Apr 2025Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 40 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

The Chrome Web Store rounds user counts down to the leading digit, so the user line moves in steps. The ratings count is exact and is the better signal of real adoption.

About Alternate Tab Order

Changes tab ordering in a manner similar to pre-2010 Firefox. The video explains it best, but by default, this extension does the following: - When a new tab is opened, it is sent to the end on the far-right - If that tab was opened with a left-click, such that it is automatically switched to, closing it will switch back to the tab from which is was opened (as long as no other tab had been switched to in the meantime) What that means in practical terms is this: 1. if I have an RSS reader open, left-clicking to read a story immediately will show me an open a tab on the end of the list. Closing that story it will take me back to my RSS reader. 2. If I queue up a bunch of stories to read by middle-clicking several links, they will all open on the end of the tab list. When I go to read them by clicking on the first tab I opened, closing it will show me the next story. I recognize how incredibly small the audience is for this exact setup, but there you have it. Attributions I used to just locally comment out some code in Brad Dwyer's Modified Tab Ordering extension from https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/lhlppppejjiiinhklmlpfkafimagbcbe - but Chrome now considers changes to be security issues. Since Brad's extension uses a deprecated version of the Chrome extension API, I based my version off of itworks' New Tabs At End from https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/new-tabs-at-end/bgogjfbkjgjhonhikkkflpkgpcpfljoa Double Arrow glyph made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com licensed under CC BY 3.0

Growth

WindowUsersChangeRatingsRating
7 days0+0.0%00.00
30 days0+0.0%00.00
6 months−4,000−40.0%00.00
1 year0+0.0%+3−0.18

Version history

2 versions recorded
1.1.010 Aug 2024
1.0.138 Feb 2015

Details

Category
Workflow & Planning
First seen
8 Feb 2015
Size
17 KB
Languages
en-GB
Pricing
Free
Support
techknight.com
Extension ID
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Permissions and risk

Minimal riskimpact 0, likelihood 1

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