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In case you're mad at yourself for closing your precious window with all the right tabs opened, note that Firefox allows to reopen recently closed windows (jlai.lu)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I generally have a "home" Firefox window with my most used tabs pinned. Sometimes I close it before another window, so I was frustrated to "lose" it and having to redo my pins. But recently I discovered this feature. Joy!

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[–] [email protected] 99 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

How would people function without knowing this?? Maybe I'm just young, but this has been a thing as far back as I can remember (maybe 2010 or so), on all browsers I've used (Safari, Chrome, Firefox).

[–] PmMeFrogMemes 54 points 2 years ago (2 children)

yeah if I did ctrl-shift-T and didn't get my tab back on a modern browser I'd assume it was a bug lol

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

This about reopening entire Windows that you closed, which you can undo since version 116, released August 1.

The keyboard shortcut to reopen closed tabs (Ctrl + shift + t or Command + shift + t depending on your operating system) now reopens last closed tab or last closed window, in the order items were closed. If there aren't any tabs or windows to reopen, this command restores the previous session. This change is in anticipation of upcoming changes to recently closed tabs.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Nope, this feature has existed forever. They just changed the shortcut, previously it was Ctrl-shift-T for re-opening the last closed tab and Ctrl-shift-N for re-opening the last closed window.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Ohh, this makes much more sense. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Yup, I've been using Ctrl-shift-N for years, so long that I don't recall it ever not being a thing. Basically, as soon as I needed to reopoen a closed window, I just added "shift" to do the opposite of opening a new window and it worked.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Uh, no, it's certainly much older than that. I know because I have literally used it.

This has to be something else.

Edit: yeah, it's not a new addition. It's under "changes" in the patch notes. Big difference.

[–] PmMeFrogMemes 2 points 2 years ago

ah neat! :D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

You could already do that; it just was a separate keyboard shortcut/menu item before.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah! That still works for tabs it looks like, but you have to do Ctrl+shift+N to get closed windows back.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

~~It got removed from chrome a while ago. Have to use an extension for it.~~

[–] geno 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

What are you talking about? I used it like 2 days ago last time, no plugins. Not sure if there's a hotkey for reopening a closed window (ctrl shift T?), but you can find it from the menu in upper right corner of the browser.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, same here. I use it fairly regularly because I'm a dumbass who closes the wrong window all the time

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I actually checked and nope, it's not there. Been like a year since this? what the fuck?

EDIT: I'm a moron. What happened is that before you could reopen one by right clicking any tab and clicking the option, but that option was removed. I never did the "click the empty space after the tabs" thing because I normally run 50 tabs at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

That's terrible. I'm so sorry.