We've covered other solutions in the past such as Unclosetab, a Firefox extension that adds a right-click option to reopen a closed tab. Another easy way to reopen a closed tab is simply to visit the Recently Closed Tabs menu under History.
And if you'd like to close the tab currently up, CTRL + W or COMMAND + W should do the trick. Now you have no excuse for your lady to catch you browsing the Apple Store late at night.
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1-18-2008 @ 9:51AM
GoOrange said...
Wow. The number of things I don't know continues to amaze me. I was thinking the other day that I needed an easy way to bring back accidentally closed tabs. Looks like I've got one now!
Thanks.
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1-18-2008 @ 10:18AM
Eijnok said...
I'm running Firefox 3 Beta 2 and that feature is now built in, you just have to right click in the tab bar and its a undo close tab choise.
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1-18-2008 @ 10:28AM
Taomyn said...
It's part of v2 too, this is just saying how to access it.
1-18-2008 @ 11:53PM
Aalaap said...
Undo close tab has always been a feature since FF2, but this CTRL-SHIFT-T is a quick and dirty shortcut that doesnt require you to 1) move your mouse to an unused tab strip area 2) right click 3) choose 'undo close tab'.
1-18-2008 @ 10:28AM
Taomyn said...
If you have Tab Mix Plus installed you can also have a handy pull down toolbar menu that lists last "x" number of closed tabs so you can choose the one you want without going back through each one to find it.
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1-18-2008 @ 11:01AM
kingkool68 said...
While on the subject of tabs, you can also cycle through your tabs by holding cntrl + TAB (yes, even the control on the Mac) to go to the right, and Cntrl + Shift + TAB to go to the left.
I also like how you can hover your mouse over tabs and use your scroll wheel to shift your tabs left or right if you have a zillion tabs open and they won't all fit on the screen. This is better than using those tiny arrows on either side.
Shift+scroll wheel moves forward or backward in the browser history for the current tab or window.
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1-18-2008 @ 12:10PM
HardwareGuy said...
You can also increase the amount of tabs you can undo by going to about:config and changing the option named browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo
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1-18-2008 @ 10:16PM
Paul said...
....or you could just use Opera, because it had this feature with a nice trash icon from the get go... :-)
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1-22-2008 @ 6:36AM
Kenny said...
And your keyboard shortcut in Opera to re-open closed tabs is Ctrl+Alt+Z (Ctrl+Z alone will do it 99% of the time as well, because it simply undoes the last thing you did).
Sorry, Firefox didn't invent sliced bread.
1-18-2008 @ 11:51PM
Aalaap said...
My life just changed :P
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1-21-2008 @ 3:19AM
MeLeNaS said...
Ctrl+F12 also re-opens an accidentally closed tab ;)
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1-25-2008 @ 7:23AM
Rhysickle said...
If you use tabmixplus you can set it up so a middle/right click of the mouse on the tab bar opens the last closed tab, and you can go up to 5 tabs back.
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