Get around Safari tabs faster.

Short, practical guides to Safari’s built-in shortcuts and switching between recently used tabs on Mac.

Moving from Arc to Safari on Mac
Keep Arc's recent-tab shortcut in Safari and find out about Safari's new vertical tab layout.
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Bring Firefox’s Control-Tab shortcut to Safari
Moving from Firefox to Safari on Mac? Use Control-Tab to return to your last active tab and browse recent tabs with previews.
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TabBack vs. ReTab for Safari
Both return to your last active tab and let you cycle through recent tabs. The main differences are page previews, shortcut flexibility, and device support.
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Safari keyboard shortcuts for switching tabs
On a Mac, Control-Tab selects the next tab. Control-Shift-Tab selects the previous tab. Both follow the order of the tab bar.
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How to switch to the last active tab in Safari
Safari has no built-in shortcut for the tab you were just using. A recent-tab extension adds that behavior without rearranging your tab bar.
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How to toggle between two tabs in Safari
Use Command-number shortcuts to return to two specific tabs, or a recent-tab shortcut to switch between whichever two pages you used last.
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