Solved Change Tab Cycler window order to be based on the left to right order of tabs in the current window

[shapesinaframe]

I searched to see if this had already been raised and couldn't find any old tickets. Apologies if this has already been picked up.

I find it quite disorienting when navigating left and right across tabs in a window using the Tab Cycler keyboard shortcuts (option+command+< or (option+command+>), as the tab order across the browser window is not represented in the cycler window - the cycler window appears to be based on some other order (unclear what that order is), with the current tab being at the top.

eg: In the screenshot below, I'm on the Fireship tab, and want to navigate to the Apple tab on the left, but when I press the shortcut to move to the left (option+command+<) it goes to the Salesforce tab on the right (which is at the bottom of the list).

It seems this interaction model is based on the assumption the user will look at the cycler window when navigating tabs with the keyboard, but the problem is this action starts BEFORE that cycler window is on screen.

I'm pressing the keyboard shortcut to move to the tab on the left based on what I can see in the browser tab row; I can already see the tab I want to move to is on the left of my current tab, so am expecting when I press the shortcut to moves focus to the tab on the left once, it will take me one tab to the left.

Instead what happens is I get moved to a completely different tab based on the cycler window order which isn't aligned with the order of tabs as seen in the browser.

Here's another example of how this negatively impacts UX:

If you wanted to view each tab for a moment using the keyboard by pressing the shortcut key five times with a short break between each press to view the page (expecting to move from left to right across all the tabs in the window) you just get bounced back and forth between two tabs repeatedly.

This makes using this keyboard shortcut very cumbersome and it requires way too much cognitive load for what is a very basic command, as you need to

1. press and hold the shortcut combo
2. review the order of tabs presented in the cycler window
3. Identify where the tab you want to view is in the newly created order of tabs in the cycler (the order is not persistent between views)
4. press the keyboard shorcut the required number of times to cycle to the tab you want to view based on its new (random?) location in the cycler

Could there be an option to keep the tab order in the tab cycler window persistent, and order this list using tab position in the browser window? (left most tab on the top, right most at the bottom, with the current tab highlighted in the list at its position based on the left-to-right order in the current window)

This would make it far easier to use, and align the keyboard shortcut behaviour (option+command+< & option+command+>) with how other browsers behave when using the keyboard to navigate between tabs.

[TbGbe]

@shapesinaframe I'm guessing that you have your tabs created/cycled in "related" order.

Check:
"Settings/Tabs - New Tab Position"
"Settings/Tabs - Tab Features - Tab Cycling"

[shapesinaframe]

Ahhhhh! Yes, I did have it set to "Recently used".

I changed it to "Cycle in Tab" order and now it works how I wanted it to. Thank you so much for pointing this out!