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This has been sent to several freelancers on Fiverr.

I'm looking for an extension that provides MRU (most-recently-used) tab behavior in Chrome on Windows. This is generally hard to achieve as it's not supported natively but I think there's a trick: there's a CLUT extension that implements the MRU behavior (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clut-cycle-last-used-tabs/cobieddmkhhnbeldhncnfcgcaccmehgn) and I can manually update the Preferences file to change the CLUT's default Alt+S shortcut to Ctrl+Tab. Then it works for a single session. The problem is that after I restart Chrome, the shortcut is back to Alt+S.

So the gig would be about creating an extension (or an extension plus a small Chrome app) that:

  • Expects CLUT to be installed
  • On every Chrome start, or shortly after that, searches the Preferences file for Alt+S and replaces it with Ctrl+Tab.

That's it. If I understand the security constraints correctly, this would need to be a pair of Chrome app that has the filesystem access and can write to the Preferences file, plus a small Chrome extension that calls that Chrome app via some API.

Is that doable?

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