November 19, 2008 at 7:53 am – Posted by Alex

Turn off new Ctrl+Tab behaviour in Firefox 3.1

I’m sure some of you may be frustrated by Firefox 3.1’s new tab behaviour when pressing Ctrl + Tab. No longer does it just browse through the tabs, but instead it switches to the most recently viewed tab (much like Windows Alt + Tab.

Thankfully, you can turn the new Ctrl + Tab behaviour off, and return it old skool. Simply follow the steps below:

  • Go to about:config in the URL bar
  • Set browser.ctrlTab.mostRecentlyUsed to false
  • Set browser.ctrlTab.recentlyUsedLimit to 0
  • Restart Firefox

All done! Enjoy the old Ctrl + Tab behaviour.

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2 Responses

  1. Tried it wrote on April 2, 2009 at 12:34 am

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    Does not work on FF 3.6 alpha.

  2. Jigsaw wrote on April 22, 2009 at 7:14 am

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    Thanks for the info. It worked well.