637
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 11 months ago by oce@jlai.lu to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
161 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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!

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] radix@lemm.ee 106 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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@lemmy.world 53 points 11 months ago

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

[-] jayknight@lemmy.ml 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[-] Makiterr@iusearchlinux.fyi 26 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] radix@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

Ohh, this makes much more sense. Thanks!

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months 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.

[-] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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.

[-] Vincent@feddit.nl 2 points 11 months ago

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

[-] PmMeFrogMemes@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

ah neat! :D

[-] Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

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

load more comments (11 replies)
this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2023
637 points (92.5% liked)

Firefox

17032 readers
745 users here now

A place to discuss the news and latest developments on the open-source browser Firefox

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
k_o_t@lemmy.ml