ReTab

by Kendrick Howe

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May 23, 2026 Productivity

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Hey HN, if you do use Safari, try my little ReTab extension. It makes jumping back and forth between tabs way smoother and honestly improves my productivity & enjoyment a ton.Tap Cmd+E to jump back & forth between your last visited tabs Hold Cmd+E to show a list of your tab history to select (just like Cmd+Tab on macOS)Tab history is tracked per-window so cycling stays scoped to the window with focus. No analytics, no remote calls, nothing leaves the Mac — a single Safari Web Extension on MV3 spec + small Swift container app.22s demo: https://youtu.be/oysvE06Ys-0Any feedback or ideas are welcome!

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Monserrate Monahan 1 month ago

Safari's extension API has a track record of breaking keyboard shortcut handling across macOS updates. Similar tools have run into this before. The core problem being addressed here is real though, native tab switching in Safari is surprisingly limited compared to what's possible in Chrome extensions.

Sunny Altenwerth 1 month ago

safari extensions are such a tiny market tho. also cmd+E conflicts with like every text editor's center shortcut, weird choice. native swift or webextension api?