ReTab - Tab Switch for Safari

ReTab 3.2.3 — Under-the-hood polish • Performance and reliability refinements, including more efficient background processing during long browsing sessions. What was new in 3.2.2 — Hover to commit • Hover any tab card while holding Cmd+E and release — ReTab switches to that tab. Mirrors macOS Cmd+Tab's "hover wins" behavior: the hovered card lights up in the same selection style as the keyboard cursor, the keyboard highlight steps aside while the mouse is over a card, and releasing commits to whatever the cursor is on. Move the mouse off the picker before releasing and the keyboard cursor takes over again, exactly like before. • No change to the keyboard-only flow — tap, hold, arrows, Shift, click-to-switch all behave identically. What was new in 3.2.1 • Stuck-picker fix, finalized. A few users reported the picker occasionally stayed on screen after releasing Cmd+E, requiring a click to commit. Root cause: the modifier keyup event was being absorbed before reaching ReTab — most often by a focused cross-origin iframe (YouTube embed, OAuth popup, embedded editor), but also by brief OS focus blips and pages that intercept keyboard events. ReTab now infers a release the moment any subsequent event (mouse move, click, scroll, keypress) shows the modifier is no longer held, and commits cleanly. What was new in 3.2 • VoiceOver now narrates the picker. Holding Cmd+E announces "Recent tabs" and each highlighted card as you cycle, with position-in-list and selection state — closely matching the cadence of macOS's own Cmd+Tab. Releasing the modifier returns focus exactly where you left it. Thanks to the visually-impaired user whose feedback drove this fix. • Cleaner shortcut announcement. The keyboard-shortcut row in Safari Settings is now labeled simply "ReTab", so screen readers don't re-read the full description on every cycle step. • Initial stuck-picker safety nets. An inactivity watchdog and a synchronous abort on tab-hide so the picker dismisses even when keyup is lost. What was new in 3.1 • Per-window tab history. ReTab now tracks tabs separately for each Safari window. Cycling stays scoped to the window you're in, and the picker dismisses automatically when you switch windows. • Arrow keys to navigate. While the picker is up, ← walks the highlight backwards and → walks it forward — alongside the existing chord-key tap and Shift+chord gesture. • Click to switch. Mouse-click any card in the picker to jump directly to that tab. Hover hints make clickable cards obvious. • System-aligned typography. The picker now renders at the same body text size as macOS Cmd+Tab, with proportionally larger favicons. • Dark Reader friendly. The picker stays consistently readable even when the Dark Reader extension is active. What was new in 3.0 • Unified shortcut. The separate hop and cycle commands are now one intelligent shortcut — tap Cmd+E to instantly flip between your two most recent tabs, hold it to summon the visual picker. • Cmd+Tab-style picker. A frosted-glass list of your recent tabs appears while you hold the shortcut. Each tap walks the highlight forward through your history; release to land there. • Hold Shift to reverse. While cycling, hold Shift to walk the picker backwards — just like Cmd+Shift+Tab does for apps. • Click to hop. Clicking the ReTab toolbar icon performs an instant hop to your last tab, no keyboard needed. • Customizable in Safari. On Safari 26+, remap ReTab's shortcut directly in Safari Settings → Extensions. • Refined under the hood. Faster overlay injection, smarter favicon caching, more reliable behavior across Safari restarts and slow-loading tabs. Note: if your custom shortcut isn't responding, re-confirm it once in Safari Settings → Extensions.