Search Open Browser Tabs

Developer, Windows Developer 1 Minute

TL;DR:

  • On Chromium-based browsers like Edge and Chrome, press Ctrl+Shift+A.
  • On Firefox, press Ctrl+L (or Alt+D) to focus on the address bar, then type % and then tap the Spacebar.

I have a lot of browser tabs open all the time, sometimes going to a hundred or more, and it’s often not very easy to find the tab that I am looking for. Thankfully, modern browsers support searching your open (and recently closed) tabs, and have very handy shortcuts to open tab-search.


Chromium-based browsers like Edge and Chrome

Press Ctrl+Shift+A to open tab-search. See documentation.

Firefox

Press Ctrl+L (or Alt+D) to focus on the address bar, then type % and then tap the Spacebar to search tabs. See documentation.

That would switch the address bar to tab-search:

Give it a try!

Published by Sachin Joseph

Software Engineer @ Microsoft

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