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How-to Recover Closed Browser Tabs

Posted June 2012 by Steve Sinchak

If you are a browser tab ninja you can easily have dozens of tabs open at any moment. With that many tabs you can easily close the wrong one. That can be very annoying because sometimes you don’t even know the URL that was open. The good news is just about every modern browser has the ability to recover tabs. This article will show you how to recover closed tabs in Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox and Safari.

Depending on your browser, just press the corresponding keys at the same time.

Internet Explorer

Control + Shift + T

Google Chrome

Control + Shift + T

Firefox

Control + Shift + T

Safari

Control + Z

Yes, Apple had to be different.

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