Move to next tab stack with keyboard

[authvin]

I was looking for something like this in the settings and couldn't find anything. Would really like at least a shortcut for "move to next tabstack" and "move to previous tabstack", probably both in a "most recently used" and a "tab stack cycler" way. I prefer the latter, but others would probably want the former.

[Pesala]

@authvin I use Accordion style Tab Stacks with Auto-Expand enabled, and I have assigned single-key shortcuts to Switch to Tab commands:

1. Switch to Tab 1
2. Switch to Tab 2
3. Switch to Tab 3, etc.

Testing with:

• Tab 1 pinned
• Tab 2 Vivaldi tab
• Tabs 3&4 my website stack
• Tabs 5-7 BBC website stack

1. Shortcut 1 activates the pinned tab
2. Shortcut 2 activates the Vivaldi tab
3. Shortcut 3 activates the last used tab on my website
4. Shortcut 4 activates the last used tab on the BBC website

So, in brief, this feature request is already available, except that regular and pinned tabs are not differentiated from stacked tabs.

[authvin]

@Pesala Thank you for the reply! That is a solution when you only have a few tab stacks, but I often end up with many more than 4-5, which is the limit for where I feel numbered shortcuts are sufficient. It also requires that I remember which index each tab stack has, which is far less than ideal.

I don't think differentiating regular and pinned tabs from stacked tabs is important, the important part for me is to be able to skip past a tab stack when cycling through tabs. If I need to get from tab stack 10 to tab stack 12, and tab stack 11 has 16 tabs in it, it can get quite bothersome

[Pesala]

@authvin Yes, opening too many tabs is far from ideal.

I have lost count of how many problems were reported by users opening way too many tabs. The tab options are already very complex, making it a nightmare to provide support, as we never know which options users have selected, or what their workflow is like. Adding yet more options will just make matters worse, IMO.

Each new feature, e.g. the long-awaited horizontal scrolling tabs, led to a whole new set of feature requests about scrolling speed, tab width, etc. No doubt implementing tree-style tabs will have similar results.

For me, with two tabs in each of two windows, and rarely more than five tabs, I face no issues with dragging tabs, memory use, finding tabs, or tab previews popping up and obscuring the interface.

Note that after several years, neither of these requests have more than twenty votes, so will probably not be implemented in the foreseeable future. Look for workarounds, e.g. use sessions to save tab sets that you are not actively using.

[shifte]

My ideal feature is the "Hit-a-Hint-Tabs".

[TheHighHorse]

I still think this is a worthwhile feature and it has my vote.

[Pesala]

@Pesala said in Move to next tab stack with keyboard:

So, in brief, this feature request is already available, except that regular and pinned tabs are not differentiated from stacked tabs.

[s0hughes]

"way too many tabs" ?
How about (26) separate profiles, some I keep clean with less than ten tabs, but some, very rarely have less than 100 tabs. Today I'm over 200.
Sorry if that offends some, but I'd say a quarter are recent (less than a week old) searches that I've failed to discard, but 3/4 are research I've started and wish to return to. A couple times a month I go through and delete dozens of stacks. I mapped CTRL+Shift+W to close-tab-stack.
NOW, if I could just surf between my tab-stacks more quickly it would save me a ton of time.
This seems like a simple request and it seems clear a good number of us will use it.

[Pesala]

@s0hughes said in Move to next tab stack with keyboard:

it seems clear a good number of us will use it.

22 votes in over four years is not a good number.

The linked request has just 20 votes in over five years.

I do not think it is a simple request. If you have dozens of tab stacks, how will you remember which of dozens of shortcuts jumps to which stack? Next/previous stack would be easy to remember, but then you have to press the shortcut multiple times.

Maybe the Windows Panel is a better way of managing large numbers of tabs, stacks, and workspaces?

[s0hughes]

Pretty sure those of us interested would be perfectly satisfied with next stack / previous stack: same as CTRL+PgUp / CTRL+PgDn , cycling in tab order, but jumping one stack at a time, giving focus to 1st (or last... no mater to me) tab in the stack.

Most common use is: I know I have a tab open for this, just found it a couple day ago, should be able to ctrl+pgup a few times and find it, and indeed if we could for example shift+ctrl+pgup and move a stack at a time, we would get there very quickly.

Today, when I go about cleaning up, I might have to change the setting for Close Tab that tells it to focus next or previous, depending whether I begin cleaning from the 1st or last tab. (I change this setting often) Next, I open 1st tab repeat CTRL+PgDn, doing Ctrl+W or shift+ctrl+W (close entire stack) for those I wish to close.
Note that when I get to a stack I do not want to close, I will have to ctrl+pgdn a dozen or more times in order to advance to the next stack. THIS is the pain point we're trying to relieve.
Valid Alternative: Sometimes using the Windows Pane might make this easier, but only if the tab names are descriptive enough, I kind of prefer to see the actual page before deciding to delete the tab.

[Pesala]

@s0hughes Moving tab stacks to workspaces may help. One can assign shortcuts for up to nine workspaces.

[s0hughes]

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll use the Window panel. Thought this was as simple of skipping forward a chapter vs a page, but I don't know the code. I've tried using workspaces in a couple of profiles, I still forget they are there (where's my tabs?), have to spend time deciding on categories, then often as not, fail to switch to the appropriate workspace before beginning a new search. I already use Profiles (broadly) to segregate I.T.work from home-projects from recreation, but within each would be dozens of sub-categories. Not worth the time to create and maintain.

[zecuse]

@Pesala said in Move to next tab stack with keyboard:

@s0hughes Moving tab stacks to workspaces may help. One can assign shortcuts for up to nine workspaces.

This doesn't address the fundamental problem, though, for those that already made use of workspaces to help organize their tabs and tab stacks. For those that don't keep too many tabs, this essentially just makes workspaces into glorified tab stacks.

I currently have 6 workspaces and the largest of which has a normal tab + 4 tab stacks. Switching between the search stack and documentation stack in this workspace (computer programming) would be very helpful, even if it's the same result as the "tab cycler back/forward" that's already available to normal tabs.