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Aug 6

Support contextual tab navigation

Not everyone as identical workflows, and while some people will only keep the documents/browser tabs/explorer folders open for the duration of the current task, others prefer and can afford to keep many things open simultaneously, to reduce the overhead of task switching. As I like to reopen my previous session in sumatra, which opens many tens of documents, it would be useful to be able to navigate the tabs (whose titles aren't visible) in a contextual manner, similar to windows explorer's and firefox's behavior: Ctl+Tab switches through the recently viewed tabs, in a queue, instead of the positional order. I realize this may need UI changes, though. A simpler approach could be to mimic the behavior of the in-document navigation (forward and backward), for the tab navigation. Maybe Ctl+Backspace and Ctl+Shift+Backspace could be used to navigate between recent tabs.
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Sep 21, 2023

No plans to implement that but I suggest to use `Alt + K` in 3.5 pre-release (https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/prerelease) which allows quickly switching between tabs via command palette

Oct 8, 2023

kjk: Respectfully, the `Alt+K` feature requires the user to remember the file names and multiple keystrokes and visual verification/scrolling. What I suggested is consistent with the user experience in many other contexts where tabs are supported, would not affect current user experience, and may be easy to implement. Also, recently `Alt+K` method always complains that it can't find the file.