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Re:Firefox 50.0 by hughes on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @03:40PM (#12962012)
The problem with this feature is that it depends on hidden UI state. With the "last used" behavior there's no way at a glance to know which tab will be activated when pressing ctrl-tab, so you either have to maintain the state in your head, or guess-and-check how many times to hit the key combo.

If you only have a few tabs open, it can be useful in conjunction with Ctrl-[1-9], but I am also still strongly in the next/prev tab camp.

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Re:Firefox 50.0 by pritambaral on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @09:52PM (#12964167)
Pressing Ctrl-Tab once without letting go of Ctrl shows you a graphical overlay of most recently used tabs. If you don't like what you see, just add one Shift-Tab to your already pressed Ctrl.
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