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

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  • 3
    Because closing them one by one after you fixed the bug is more satisfying
  • 1
    Because it's not Firefox.
  • 0
    So that you find your way back from the Web if you get lost
  • 0
    shift your tab to their left, but then you'll have to sacrifice everything on right as well.
  • 0
    Xcode has this same tab behavior and I was wondering why. But I never actually ever wanted to close tabs to the left. Weird.
  • 0
    CTRL + W should close the current tab in Chrome (at least it does in Chromium on Linux and Windows).
  • 1
    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
  • 0
    I use my browser tabs like a stack. More importantly, why isn't there a "Ctrl+tab cycles recently used" option in the settings?
  • 1
    @alturnativ Thanks! Didn't know about this
  • 2
    @lbfalvy there is... In Firefox 😐
  • 0
    @iiii I know, that's why I expect it.
  • 0
    @lbfalvy even though it's a good option to have – I guess – I hate that it became the default.
  • 0
    Close everything at the same time, usually I've opened my search tabs in one page
  • 0
    @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.
  • 1
    @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.
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