A keyboard shortcut to cycle through the tabs in your web browser

On macOS, you can cycle through the tabs of your web browser by simultaneously pressing the keys Command and Option and, as often as you want to, the left arrow or right arrow on your keyboard before you release the keys Command and Option. That keyboard shortcut works only on macOS though. If you sometimes use Linux or Windows, you should get into the habit of using a different keyboard shortcut.

Today I learned that you can alternatively press the Control key together with Tab to move right or Control together with Shift and Tab to move left. These keyboard shortcuts work on all major operating systems (GNU/Linux, Windows, macOS) and achieve the same outcome.

If your keyboard has the keys Page Up and Page Down, then an even cooler shortcut is pressing the Control key together with either of them. The first reason why it's cooler is that to move left, you need only two keys: Control and Page Up instead of Control together with Shift and Tab. The second reason is that you can hold the Shift key in addition to Control and either Page Up or Page Down to swap the current tab with its respective neighboring tab. These keyboard shortcuts also work on all major operating systems including macOS and achieve the same outcome.

You can find more similar keyboard shortcuts here.

Final words#

Today I learned two additional keyboard shortcuts to cycle through the tabs of my web browser that, unlike the one I used thus far, work on GNU/Linux too. It will be useful to get into the habit of using one of those shortcuts instead. Hopefully, you could learn something from this post too. In any case, be well.