QuicKey – The quick tab switcher

Add keyboard shortcuts to switch tabs with a Quicksilver-style search or a most recently used menu

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What is QuicKey – The quick tab switcher?

QuicKey – The quick tab switcher is a Firefox add-on by fwextensions. This add-on has 22 daily active users and a perfect 5.0 rating. The latest version, 1.8.0, was updated 7 months ago.

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By: fwextensions

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Users: 22 ▲ 3

Rating: 5.00 (1)

Version: 1.8.0 (Last updated: 2022-10-26)

Creation date: 2022-10-26

Weekly download count: 4

Firefox on Android: No

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

• tabs
• bookmarks
• history
• storage
• sessions

Size: 404.50K

Email: Click to see

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood

Other platforms

Not available on Chrome

Not available on Edge

ChromeStats Rank

# 16742 ▲ 1118

Other rankings

#65 in quick keyword ▲ 5

#69 in quiz keyword ▲ 6

#85 in kitchen keyword ▲ 3

#121 in switch keyword ▲ 5

#128 in ticket keyword ▲ 7

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Summary

Add keyboard shortcuts to switch tabs with a Quicksilver-style search or a most recently used menu.  No mouse needed!

 • Press ALT-Q (CTRL-Q on macOS)
 • Type a few letters
 • Press ENTER to switch to the selected tab


★ Switch between the most recently used tabs

 ➤ NOTE: When first installed, QuicKey doesn't know which tabs have been
      recently used, but as you use the browser, tabs will get added to the
      most recently used (MRU) list.

Opening QuicKey displays a list of the last 50 tabs you've visited, in order of recency. Click a tab to switch to it, or use one of the keyboard shortcuts below to navigate the recently used tab history:

User reviews

Awesome add-on. Missing this when transitioning from chrome to firefox was painful. I had to use 2 different extensions to have half the functionality. One to ALT+Z to previous tab, and another to show and navigate tabs, in recent order! Most extensions don't show them by recent order. The navigation shortcuts are great for my use case. ALT+Q to open list, ALT-W to select and switch tab without having to press enter, and ALT+Q again to close list (because sometimes I change my mind), all of that without having to lift my fingers to reach for ESC key. Finally, fast and productive tab switching, thanks so much.

by Firefox user 13693890, 2023-02-17

Safety

Risk impact

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Risk likelihood

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