How to Close Tab in Chrome by Double Click on It?

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1

Hi,

I can't find the relevant information on the forum.

I want to close specific tab in Chrome by double click on its area.

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I know how to close the tab but I can't determine that the mouse was double clicked on tab area.

Please ask me if you need more information about my question.

Please help to solve this problem.

Thanks
Roman

2

Hey Roman,

Welcome to the forum!  :sunglasses:

Unfortunately there's not really good way to do what you want.

Keyboard Maestro cannot determine that you're clicking on a tab in Chrome – at least not directly – and you'll compromise normal mouse function.

You can play with a device trigger:

Device Trigger – Using Two Mouse Clicks.kmmacros (2.7 KB)
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But this is very hit and miss for me, and as I said – it compromises normal mouse function.

-Chris

3

Hi Chris,

Thanks for answer.

Is there any way to detect the text under mouse cursor or X,Y coordinates of the cursor when I click on the tab area?

Do you know how to read tabs area location coordinates on the screen (maybe AppleScript)?

Thanks
Roman

4

Hey Roman,

Take a look at the (CurrentMouse)[token:CurrentMouse [Keyboard Maestro Wiki]] token and the other related mouse tokens.

The tab bar and its contained tabs can be read by AppleScript using System Events and UI-Scripting. Something like this:

tell application "System Events"
   tell application process "Google Chrome"
      tell (first window whose subrole is "AXStandardWindow")
         tell group 1
            tell group 1
               tell group 1
                  tell group 1
                     tell tab group 1
                        return {position, size}
                     end tell
                  end tell
               end tell
            end tell
         end tell
      end tell
   end tell
end tell

And yes – you can get the position and size of the buttons as well.

-Chris

5

Thanks, I will try.
Roman

6

I think it is better to buy a Logitech MX Master mouse and set one button to close the current tab.

7

An alternative could be a gesture trigger. Short movement with the mouse to the right while pressing cmd (with a modifier it is safer) The mouse can be anywhere.

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8

Thanks for help, meanwhile I set Middle mouse button to close the current tab.

Thanks
Roman