You may have multiple tabs open every day in Chrome or Firefox. Some sites you just like to keep at hand. And if it doesn’t make your computer too slow, why not? But then comes the moment when you accidentally close the window. What are you doing then? Fortunately, there are options, you can restore tabs as follows.
You are probably familiar with the shortcut Ctrl + Shift + T, which opens a closed tab. Did you know that you can also use that shortcut to get an entire window back? Try it: open some tabs with websites and then close the whole window. Press the combination and see what happens.
In principle, this is always a good option to fall back on when you accidentally close a window. But what if this doesn’t work? We will first cover the option you have for Google Chrome and then pay attention to the Mozilla Firefox browser.
Chrome: Retrieve Tabs
If you accidentally close a Chrome window with a lot of tabs, you can get them all back from the menu. Press the three dots on the right of the screen and select the button History†Hold your mouse pointer over History until a new menu with recently closed tabs appears.
When you spontaneously close a window, Chrome saves which websites were open in the tabs. You can recognize this by the fact that there is a line between the options that indicates that an x ​​number of closed tabs have been grouped. Click on it and indicate that you want to restore the entire window. Chrome will then do the rest for you.
These options also exist for other Chromium browsers, such as Edge and Opera. The options for restoring such a window may be in a slightly different location; but in all cases you will find them under the heading History.
Firefox: Reopen Window
Unfortunately, Firefox gives a little less leeway in case you accidentally close a collection of tabs. Open the menu that you will find at the top right (those three lines). Go to the option for your history and the heading that gives you access to recently closed windows. There you will find the last three windows that you closed.
You don’t see exactly which websites are covered, so you may have to guess which line you should select exactly. But if you really just closed a window, chances are you should have the top one. Finally, there is an option that opens all closed windows at once; So if you are in doubt, you can always gamble on that.
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