Why is there no 'Close tabs to the left' on Chrome!

Because closing them one by one after you fixed the bug is more satisfying

So that you find your way back from the Web if you get lost

shift your tab to their left, but then you'll have to sacrifice everything on right as well.

Xcode has this same tab behavior and I was wondering why. But I never actually ever wanted to close tabs to the left. Weird.

CTRL + W should close the current tab in Chrome (at least it does in Chromium on Linux and Windows).

From the current tab, shift+click the very last tab, click+drag all the way to the left, then right click the last highlighted tab and use the "close tabs to the right" button

I use my browser tabs like a stack. More importantly, why isn't there a "Ctrl+tab cycles recently used" option in the settings?

@alturnativ Thanks! Didn't know about this

@iiii I know, that's why I expect it.

@lbfalvy even though it's a good option to have – I guess – I hate that it became the default.

Close everything at the same time, usually I've opened my search tabs in one page

@electrineer You can always turn it off. I kinda miss when software used to come with an optional initial setup sequence where newcomers from competitors could learn about and decide on behavior like this.

@electrineer I love this feature because for the most part I don't care about the tab bar. ^T opens a new tab, ^W closes a tab I don't use anymore and ^Tab cycles through the last visited few tabs - the ones related to my current task. Nothing else is relevant until I need to make a long backreference without finalizing a subtask or switch to a different task entirely. I'd actually prefer if the number of tabs in that switching popup was configurable, since I almost always have YouTube and one or several messaging apps open and my research also frequently involves crossreferencing many documents so I'd like to have access to the last 7 tabs rather than the last 5.