If you keep Control+Tab set to cycle through tabs in recently used order, you can use Command-Shift-Left/Right or Control-PageUp/PageDown to cycle through tabs in tab-bar order instead.
Additionally, you don't need an extension to jump to a tab anymore. Command-[1-8] goes to that number tab in the current window, where 1 is the leftmost tab. Command-9 goes to the rightmost tab.
Mind you, MRU switching is still useful behaviour; Vim has Ctrl+^ to switch to the alternate file which is much the same concept, and Vimperator et al. used to do the same (on platforms where Alt+number switched to the numbered tab, rather than Windows’ Ctrl+number), no idea whether equivalent extensions can do that any more. I have a Tree Style Tab extension that makes Shift+F2 do that, and it suits me.