New MRU tab cycling feature erroneously replaces normal Page Up/Page Down behavior

[JimBreton]

Description

New MRU tab cycling feature erroneously replaces normal Page Up/Page Down behavior.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Enable "Cycle through the most recently used tabs with Ctrl-Tab"
2. Use Page Up/Page Down keys in an attempt to sequentially step through tabs in the order in which they appear
3. Observe that tabs are cycled in MRU order (as with Ctrl-Tab)

Actual result:

Tabs are cycled in MRU order

Expected result:

Tabs are cycled sequentially (in tab order)

Reproduces how often:

Easily/consistently

Brave version (brave://version info)

Version 1.17.73 Chromium: 87.0.4280.67 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Tested on Windows 10 and Linux Mint

[ddanj]

This is being worked on right? Thank you!

[nisc]

I'm also interested in seeing this getting fixed sometime in 2021, but agree with @rebron that it's probably a P3.

[DarthJahus]

I've came here to suggest this feature and found that it was already a thing.

I wonder why Chromium hasn't implemented it yet. It's truly a game changer for productivity, and it's how Windows ALT+TAB works anyway. There's even a discussion about it in Edge/Chromium insider forum.

So yes, really glad that Brave accepted to embrace one of the best features on a browser.

[JimBreton]

I'm the OP for this issue, and I will add that now that we have the 'Tab Search' feature from Chromium -- and this feature orders its list by MRU -- it fulfills much of the original need for the Ctrl+Tab behavior. At this point I've turned off the Ctrl+Tab MRU cycling to work around this issue here. I still think it should be fixed at some point (or even remove the merged code providing the Ctrl+Tab feature), but with reduced priority now that 'Tab Search' is a thing.

Anyone being bitten by this issue, I would suggest use Tab Search with up/down arrows, it's a different mechanism but gets the job done.

[nisc]

'Tab Search' feature from Chromium

You mean CMD+SHIFT+A? Yea, when I'm on Chrome I use that a lot.

[pweiden]

No one ever looked at or worked on this? This does not necessarily seem to be a headache story (at least for me non-dev)... Sad to see, but as the previous comments suggested I also use Strg+Shift+A (Search Tabs) feature to accomplish this...