FLST Chrome FLST Chrome

Productivity
Version: 2.1
Last Update: 2021-02-10

Overview

FLST Chrome is a Chrome extension developed by Gary7. According to the data from Chrome web store, current version of FLST Chrome is 2.1, updated on 2021-02-10.
1,000+ users have installed this extension. 39 users have rated this extension with an average rating of .
developer website: chrome.sertechlabs.com

Focus Last Selected Tab :: Provides natural / MRU tab ordering + Options for Tab Flipping, New Tab Select, and New Tab Location

Please Read the entire Overview section Before any Install or Update
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Make any Donation:
* Visit the developer Website (click the house icon to the right)
* (OR) Load one of these pages:
https://goo.gl/W2Co6
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/FLST
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FLST Chrome summary:
* Provides a more natural / MRU style tab ordering
* Focus-Last-Selected-Tab: when the current/displayed tab is closed, display the most recent tab
* Multiple window support: tab ordering is maintained for each window
* Tab Migration: ordering also works when tabs are dragged between windows
* Options Page: right-click the extension icon and click Options (see icon Instructions below)
* [Option] Tab Flipping: flip/toggle the current and most recent tab (!see LIMITATIONS below!)
==> After right-click on a regular link and click Open-link-in-new-tab:
* [Option] New Tabs: select/display new tabs when created
* [Option] New Tab Location: place new tabs on the far-right instead of immediate-right
==> See the developer Website for more details (click the house icon, above to the right)
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FLST Rev 2.1 release notes:
* Requires Chrome 88 or later versions supporting Manifest V2
* No special permissions, no [scary] Warning messages
* Updated to work with newer Chrome versions that caused older extension quirks
* Some older Chrome services are due for removal; now using replacement services
* Older Chrome support for F9/content_script was always incomplete, now gone
* Tab Flipping: click the extension icon -OR- type a shortcut (to customize, see Instructions below)
* Extension icon: NOT displayed? forced by newer Chrome versions, see Instructions below
- ALERT! Google announced Chrome Manifest V3; many extensions will not load and may not return
after Manifest V2 is dropped, estimated Jan 2022
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LIMITATIONS:
* When the current/displayed tab is clicked, Chrome ignores that event and does nothing;
other methods to trigger Tab-Flipping are required; click the extension icon or
type a shortcut (to customize, see Instructions below; also provided during install)
* All extensions cannot prevent other extensions from altering tab-related activity;
to resolve any issues, see test Instructions below
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Privacy:
* No spyware; FLST reads only numeric window-IDs and tab-IDs (eg 111, 14, 79)
* If any concerns: Read the extension code. Use the source, Luke.

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Instructions, display the extension icon:
- icon display was turned off by default in recent Chrome versions, no extension control
* Click the jigsaw icon near the upper-right corner of the Chrome window
* Within the Extensions popup, find [icon] FLST Chrome, scroll if needed
* Click the pin icon to the right, should switch from outline to solid
* Extension icon should now be visible, left of the jigsaw icon
* For placement: drag the new icon left or right
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Instructions, customize shortcuts: (2 methods)
* Right-click the extension icon, click Keyboard shortcuts
* (OR) paste this URL to the omnibox / address bar: chrome://extensions/shortcuts
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Instructions, something not working as expected?
* Visit the developer Website, read all sections
* Disable all other extensions, quit and restart Chrome, then retest;
re-enable other extensions only 1 at a time between tests. See LIMITATIONS above
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Questions / Requests:
* This google site is not tech support, do not post here
* Visit the developer Website, send email
* To visit: scroll from the top of this page, click the house icon on the right
* (OR) right-click the extension icon, click FLST Chrome
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Rating

39 ratings

Total Installs

1,000+

Information

Last Update

2021-02-10

Current Version

2.1

Size

107KiB

Author

Gary7

Website

chrome.sertechlabs.com

Category

Productivity

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avatar Will Ashley
2021-05-07

"Focus-Last-Selected-Tab: when the current/displayed tab is closed, display the most recent tab"

Yea, this sucks, majorly. The only reason I want this extension is tab-flipping with a shortcut, but this thing where it focuses on the last selected tab *WHEN CLOSING A TAB* is so jarring and infuriating that I literally cannot use it anymore. I didn't realize that was the main point of this extension, which I assumed was tab flipping. Extremely disappointing I can't disable this annoying behavior in the settings.

avatar A Z
2021-02-16

Very nice, works great. Install screens made the setup easy.

avatar Danni Webb
2021-02-07

Removing because of the idiotic scream sound that occured when closing the popup window warning that its icon can't be seen on the toolbar by default.

avatar gezginorman
2021-02-06

CTRL+X is a very very wrong default keyboard shortcut choice. It's just wrong.

avatar FamKis
2020-12-13

While it does not work simply by clicking on the current tab in order to go back to the last tab (as Firefox FLST does), it does so clicking the add-ons-icon. Very good.