There are often situations when you accidentally close a tab in your browser, and then you realize that it was needed. This is why the ability to open the last closed tab was invented.
In this article we will look at how to open the last closed tab in different ways, namely, open a closed tab with a keyboard shortcut and an easier way using the browser history. We will also show you how to open the last closed tab using a browser extension.
There are several ways to open a closed tab, but here we will look at the simplest and most reliable way. Namely, open a closed tab using a keyboard shortcut.
This method is similar in all browsers for Windows. You only need to press a key combination Ctrl+Shift+T. After this combination, the last closed tab will be restored.
If you use the Mac OS operating system, then you should use the keyboard shortcut Cmd+Shift+T.
How to open a recently closed tab
In this case, the method of opening the last closed tab is also similar for all browsers running the Windows operating system.
This method only works with the last closed tabs in the browser.
- Click right click mouse on an open bookmark.
- Select an item Open a newly closed tab.
- Right-click on any of the open tabs.
- And in the list we look for a button Open last closed tab.
- Right-click on any browser tab.
- In the menu that opens, click Open a closed tab.
How to open a closed tab in Mozilla
- Let's go to Menu => History => Recently closed tabs.
- In the list that opens, select the required tabs.
How to view your browsing history
The most reliable way is to use website browsing history. The history of visiting sites is saved in all browsers with the exception of private mode.
How to restore a closed tab in Yandex
- Let's go to Menu => Settings => History or click Ctrl+H.
- In the history list, open the tab that you just closed.
How to restore a closed tab in Opera
- Press the key combination Ctrl+H.
- Next in the history list, look for the tab that was accidentally closed.
It is possible to view older site visit history. This means that you will be able to open sites that were not just closed, but for example a few days earlier.
How to restore a closed tab in Chrome
- Open Menu => History => History or also use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+H.
- In the window that opens, also open the tab that you recently closed.
How to open the last closed tab using browser extensions
Undo Closed Tabs Button
Not everyone has the knowledge of how to open a closed tab using a keyboard shortcut. It often happens that we accidentally close a page while working.
This happens especially if we open a lot of pages at once and are too lazy to close them. The question arises - what to do in this case? Of course it needs to be restored closed pages, if we need them.
We will tell you several ways in which you can save the situation. First you need to determine what kind of operating system where you work.
Then, using simple and understandable methods, you will learn to open closed tabs automatically. Even an inexperienced PC user can easily master them.
Hotkeys forMacOS andWindowsOS
If you are using an operating room Mac system, then you need to use for Google Chrome,Opera, Mozilla Firefox and Yandex Browser keyboard shortcut Shift+Cmd+T. For Safari browser The combination Cmd+Z is used.
The most common operating system in our Windows time. If you use the Opera, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browser based on it, then the easiest way to restore a closed tab is to press the Shift+Ctrl+T keys simultaneously.
Important: If you worked in incognito mode, then, unfortunately, you will not be able to restore the links, since they were not tracked by the browser.
Fig. 1 – Shift+Cmd+T buttons on the keyboard
Advice: do not confuse the layout, you need to press Latin letters.
This method also works for Internet Explorer and Yandex Browser. If you use Safari, then this method will not help you, but there is another, you need to use the combination Ctrl keys+Z accordingly.
These are not all the ways that can help you save the situation. Another option for opening a recently closed page is to right-click on the tab area and select “Open closed tab.” This is one of the most convenient ways, because you don’t need to remember the key combination
You can go to settings and select “Recently closed sites”
Discovery of history
When you need to restore not just one tab, but several, or you want to open a site that you visited several days, or even weeks ago, you need to open your browser history (in some browsers it is called “History”). This can be done using the hotkeys “Ctrl” + “H” or “Ctrl” + “Shift” + “H”. You can also do this using the settings menu. The button to access the settings, in almost all browsers, is located in the upper right corner, under the close window button.
When using Internet Explorer you need to click on the button with the image of an asterisk with a plus. After this, a window with three bookmarks will appear, then select “Journal”. Next, select the time interval that interests us and look for the desired tab or several tabs. Click on the name of the site or material, the page automatically opens.
Google Chrome opens your browsing history on a separate page new page, which is very convenient. To do this, click the “settings” icon and select “history” in the drop-down window. On the tab that opens, all the sites you open will be placed in chronological order, taking into account time and date. There is also a history search bar at the top of the page, which will greatly simplify your work, but this will only help if you remember the name of the closed tab.
Rice. 2 – History by pages visited
To open history in Opera you need to click on the “Opera” icon, after which a menu will appear. From the list that appears, select “History”. Then everything is done by analogy with other browsers. There is also a history search box here.
Rice. 3 – Search history in Opera
Home page Firefox It itself offers to restore closed pages. There is a “Restore previous session” button in the lower right corner; you just need to click on it. If Firefox is not yours home page, then you can go to the “Log” menu and select “Restore previous session”.
IN Yandex Browser There is an interface element that allows you to display a list of pages that were closed during the current session. To do this, to open it, you need to act as described in this step by step instructions:
- Open the web browser control panel using the button located to the left of the “Collapse” and “Close” buttons.
- In the menu that appears, find the “History” section.
- In the “Recently Closed” section we see a list of all pages that were closed during work.
If you did not close the tab, but accidentally or intentionally opened another page on it, just click the “Back” button, this is an arrow pointing to the left, it is located to the left of the address bar in almost all browsers.
Rice. 4 – History in Google Chrome
Special extensions
For users who regularly experience such problems, special extensions have been developed. Helping to restore closed tabs and windows. These are programs such as:
- Session Manager for Firefox.
- Session Buddy for Google Chrome.
- TabHamster for Opera.
All of them can be found in the public domain, the applications are free.
Opening of the last session
If you have closed not only one tab, but the entire browser, and you want to restore all your tabs that were open, this can be done very simply. If the failure occurred due to interruptions in the operation of the computer or the browser itself, that is, the situation was an emergency, the next time you open the browser itself will offer you to restore the last session. If for some reason this did not happen, just open the history, how to do this has already been described above, and select the Restore last session option.
Other hotkeys
Knowing other keys may also come in handy when working with tabs. speed dial. With which you can quickly perform some operations with windows and tabs. To use the functions shortcut keys, you need to press Ctrl and the corresponding button (or buttons), namely:
- To open a new window - N.
- To open a new window in invisible mode - Shift + N.
- To open a new tab - T.
- To open a file in a browser - O.
- To close the tab you are using - W.
- To close the window you are using - Shift + W.
- To restore a just closed tab - Shift + T.
- To go to the next tab in the window - Tab.
- To go to the previous tab in the window - Shift + Tab.
- Open the link in a new tab and go to it - Shift + click on the link."
How to open and restore closed tab Google Chrome, Opera, Mozilla Firefox
In fact, everything is simple, you need to press several keys on the keyboard one by one. More details in the video.
Imagine that you are looking for very important material on the Internet, you have already looked huge amount sites, jumping on links from one resource to another, a mountain of tabs is open, and finally you find what you need, but trying to restore order in your browser and closing unnecessary tabs, you also close the one that contained the very long-awaited material that you have been looking for for so long. This raises the question of how to open a closed tab in Opera, Mozilla, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and other browsers without viewing the history.
It doesn't matter what browser you have because this function available in all popular browsers. We will also consider the option of how to restore a closed tab from history, but we will use this option last.
Yesterday they wrote me this question by email - how to open a tab that was closed by accident, after which I saw that this topic was discussed in one of my videos, but not in very detail. We need to correct this nuance, which is what I’ll do now.
Open the newly closed tab using the keys Ctrl + Shift + T
First you should know that everything modern browsers provided for the version of the event that I described above, namely the quick restoration of an accidentally closed tab. To restore a closed tab, you must use the keyboard shortcut “Ctrl” + “Shift” + “T”. For those who haven't found these keys on their keyboard, here's a hint:
By pressing these three keys, you will instruct the browser to restore the last closed tab. When you press this combination again, the penultimate closed tab will open, and so on.
If you have not yet trained yourself to use hotkeys, you can right-click on the area where the tabs are located or on any tab and select “Open closed tab”:
But what if the tab you need has been closed for a long time and you want to return to the page that you opened, for example, three days ago? In this case, your browser history will help you.
How to view history in browsers
The browser history (or history) is opened with the keyboard shortcut “Ctrl” + “H” or “Ctrl” + “Shift” + “H”. In addition, you can view your browsing history through the browser menu. Let's look at how this is done in the most common browsers:
InternetExplorer. In the upper right corner, find the star button and click on it. A window will open with three tabs: “Favorites”, “Web Channels” and “Journal”. We are interested in the latter. Let's go to this tab. All pages we visited can be sorted in a way convenient for you by clicking on the field with a triangle. Then select the site that we need and click on its name with the left mouse button.
GoogleChrome. In the upper right corner, find the Google Chrome settings and controls button, click on it and in the drop-down list, find the “History” item and click on it. A separate “History” tab will open in the browser, in which all your visits to Internet resources are listed in chronological order. Select the desired page and follow it as if you were following a regular link.
If you do not remember the exact date of your visit to the site, or the list of your visits is so large that it is not possible or convenient to search for the desired page in it, then you can use the search. At the top right of this tab there is a “Search in history” button, and to the left of it is a field in which you can enter the name of the site and, by clicking on the search button, find the required site in the list.
Opera. At the top left, click on the button labeled “Opera”. From the drop-down list, select “History”. An additional tab will open, similar to the one we have already seen in Google Chrome. There is also a list of visited pages in chronological order and there is also a form for searching pages in history, only it is located here to the left of the list of visited sites.
MozillaFirefox. In the upper right part of the browser, under the close button, click on the browser menu and find in the drop-down list the image of a clock labeled “Journal”. Click on it. A panel will open, at the bottom of which we need to click the “Show entire log” button.
Before us is the “Library” window. In its main part there is a list of visited pages, and on the left we can select the period for which the visit history is displayed. There is also a form at the top of the window to search for the pages you need.
Yandex. Next to the “Close” button in the upper right part of the browser is a menu button. By clicking on it, select from the list:
Will open new tab, similar to tabs Google history Chrome and Opera. In the central part there is a chronological list of visited sites, and on the right there is a form for searching the magazine.
Now you know how to open a closed browser tab that you closed accidentally and you can also find the desired site in your browser history. The principle of viewing your browsing history in browsers is the same, and navigating through the list of visited pages is easy and convenient, so don’t be afraid to accidentally close the desired page, because browser logs will always help you recover lost data.
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We are used to working with large volumes of information: 5-10-20 or more pages simultaneously loaded into the browser is not the limit for us. Usually we don’t try to remember the addresses of open sites - why, because here they are - before our eyes. But suddenly they accidentally pointed the mouse in the wrong place... and everything was gone.
Imagine: you are preparing for a test, writing a report, or performing another important task, and suddenly you close a web resource with important data. Is it possible to restore it if you don't remember what the resource is? I'll tell you a secret: you can! What human memory misses is easily remembered by the browser. Let's talk about how to open closed tabs in Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Yandex.Browser and Safari.
How to open closed tabs in different browsers
Internet Explorer
To return to the screen one of the recently visited pages in Internet Explorer 11, click the create a new tab button. It is located in the top panel next to address bar– when you hover the cursor over it, an icon in the form of a sheet of paper appears.
Alternatively, press Ctrl+L.
To reload pages that you weren't the most recently viewed, press Ctrl+H. This combination will open the visit log, by the way, not only here, but also in other web browsers. Expand the list of sites you viewed for the desired period of time and click on what you were looking for.
Microsoft Edge
IN Edge this is done just as easily as in IE, but a little differently.
Click on the “Hub” button on the top panel of the window (in the form of three horizontal stripes) and select the “Journal” section (hidden behind the icon that looks like a clock). The most recently opened materials are collected at the top of this section. Right-click on the one you want and select context menu“Open in new tab” or “In new window”.
Mozilla Firefox
To restore the last page in Mozilla Firefox, just press the combination Shift+Ctrl+T once. Click again and the second to last session will be restored, and so on, until the entire recent session is opened.
To open one of the viewed pages of your choice, go to the main menu (located behind the three-bar button) and click the “Journal” icon. Or press the combination Ctrl+H on your keyboard.
In the “Restore closed tabs” list, click on the name of the site you want to load again.
Google Chrome
Bring back recently closed sites to the screen Google Chrome, as in Mozilla Firefox, you can press Shift+Ctrl+T. By the way, this combination works everywhere except Microsoft and Safari browsers.
To access other viewed pages, click on the striped button in the upper right corner of the window (this button hides the main menu) and select “History”.
The “Recently Closed” list will open in front of us - a place where records of the most recently viewed sites are collected. To reload any of them, just click the mouse.
To restore a web resource that is not there, press the hot keys Ctrl+H or select the “History” command from the menu and then “History” again. There is a log here - a long list that lists the pages visited for the entire time you used the browser. They are sorted, as everywhere else, from latest to earliest.
Opera
IN Opera For our purposes, there is a separate menu - an inconspicuous button in the top panel with the image of two horizontal stripes and an arrow. Inside is a list of recently closed and currently open resources.
If you don't find what you're looking for here, you'll need to access your earlier browsing history. It opens through the main menu, hidden behind the button with the letter “O”. You need to select, as you understand, the “History” section.
In the Opera magazine, the pages that have ever been opened are sorted into the submenus “Today”, “Yesterday” and “Old”. The latter includes everything older than “Yesterday”.
Yandex.Browser
Restoring recently closed tabs in Yandex.Browser organized in the same way as in Google Chrome: all the “good” is stored in the “History” section, which is located in the main menu. And it, as you guessed, is also hidden behind the “three stripes” icon.
