Pressing Ctrl+Tab in Chat pane reopens closed tabs

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

If I have two tabs open in the chat pane and I press Ctrl+Tab, instead of just toggling between the two it starts reopening closed tabs.

Steps to Reproduce

Press Ctrl+Tab in a chat pane.

Expected Behavior

Move to the next open tab.

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.2.44 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 20adc1003928b0f1b99305dbaf845656ff81f5d0
Date: 2025-12-24T21:41:47.598Z
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.1.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

2

Hey, thanks for the report.

I can confirm this is a known issue with keyboard shortcuts in chat tabs. The team is aware and working on fixing tab navigation behavior in the chat pane.

I’ll add your report to the existing tracking for this issue. Thanks for the detailed reproduction steps!