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!
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yeah it does break the pattern but there isn’t much of an option that keeps everything super clean like tjat, unless it’s something like ctrl alt N for a private window.
I think that’s a fairly recent change, I remember reading it in the changelogs. There was also something else relating to the feature, but now I don’t remember
Shift+ctrl+T is usually the keyboard shortcut to bring back closed tabs Shift+ctrl+N is to bring back closed windows (doesn’t work on private browsing windows)
Or just Ctrl+shift+N will reopen that window. It has been there for years, perhaps more than a decade, and is the perfect companion to Ctrl+N, just like Ctrl+shift+T is the perfect companion to Ctrl+T.
I wish Firefox had a method to restore windows after a restart. Losing all my tabs across multiple windows due to work required updates is a huge pain.
If you can use extensions, I use the Tab Session Manager extension. It has a ton of features too but the big one is auto saving your sessions so you can always restore it all after a restart.
This is literally a thing? You just go to options and tick General -> Startup -> Open previous windows and tabs. It is quite literally the first option in the interface. I only mean to be a slight bit rude, but did you not even take a cursory look through the options?
Don’t worry about being rude. Spreading demeaning misinformation about free software, especially one as important for the Web as Firefox, should be frowned upon.
Personally, I’d like it to be able to do it sometimes without having to set it to happen every time. In other words, I’d like a “restore previous session” UI element in the history interface.
I should probably look into some of the extensions folks in this thread are talking about.
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