Have you ever needed to restore tabs in Google Chrome tabs because you accidentally closed them while working?
if you are one of those who open more than 4 tabs at a time, this could be a very common mistake that can happen.
Sending an email to the wrong person, not attaching a file in an email, closing a Word document before saving it, are just some of the mistakes we make due to the speed with which we live our day to day, but, without a doubt, the most common one is closing tabs by accident.
That’s why today we want to tell you how to recover closed pages in Chrome.
This happens to hundreds of people. You can find many cases in the Google Chrome help portal, but don’t worry, restoring the last Chrome tabs is very simple,
are you ready to learn it?
this information will change your life! Or at least your work.
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Restore tabs in Chrome from your computer
If you are on your computer, the fastest way to restore tabs in Chrome is to use the command:
CTRL+Shift+T
. But if there are several tabs you want to recover, you can follow these steps:
Open a new window in
google Chrome
click on the three vertical dots located at the top right of your computer. Once you have done this, a menu will appear. Go to the ‘
History’ option
there you will find a list of pages you have recently browsed. Click on the ones you want to recover, and that’s it!
Restore tabs in Chrome from Android
If you closed your
recently opened windows accidentally on your Android phone
you can also recover them easily. Follow these 4 steps, which are very similar to the ones we saw above:
Open a new window in Google Chrome.
Click on the three vertical dots located at the top right of your phone.
A list of the tabs you have browsed will appear under the heading ‘Recently closed’.
Click on the one you want to restore.
Restore tabs in Chrome from Mac
If you work from a Mac, you can also restore Chrome tabs. Just press the following keys at the same time: Cmd+Shift+T, or follow the steps below:
Open a new window in Google Chrome.
Click on the three vertical dots located at the top right of your computer.
Once this is done, a menu will pop up and you will see: “# tabs” with the total number of windows you accidentally closed, click there.
Then, click on the option ‘
Reset all tabs’ option
.
Restore tabs in Chrome from iPhone
did you close tabs from an iPhone?
we have a solution too! The process to recover closed tabs in Chrome from iPhone is very similar.
Open a new tab.
Go to the menu.
Click on the option
history
.
Select the page you want to restore.
see how easy it is to retrieve your recently closed tabs in Chrome?
however, it will always be better to be safe than sorry, this is why we want to go further and give you some Google tricks that will help you avoid losing your browsing windows.
how to avoid losing my tabs?
We have already seen how to restore a tab, but how to avoid losing any information? After these recommendations, losing or closing recently opened windows will no longer be a problem. here we go!
Restore the last session in Chrome
Undoubtedly, Google Chrome wants to make our life much easier. It is increasingly concerned about having a better user experience and making browsing easy and intuitive. To do this, it has a setting that allows you to restore the last session in Chrome.
We will explain more about it. When we open our browser, it shows us a blank page by default, however, we can change this if we make a configuration in Google Chrome that allows us to open a specific page, or a group of pages we want.
Below, we tell you how to restore the last session in Google Chrome in just 3 steps:
Head to settings, as if you were going to customize your Google Chrome.
Scroll down until you get to “On open”.
Select the central option “Open everything as it was before closing”.
With this setting, every time you open your browser you will be able to go back to the tabs you were working with before closing Google Chrome.
this is another easy way to restore your recent tabs!
Close Chrome without losing tabs
did you know that there are Google Chrome settings that will help you avoid losing your tabs every time you close them?
the most basic option, but useful for you, is to pin your tabs. To do this, follow these steps:
Open the web page you want to pin.
Right click on its tab.
Select the option set.
Once this is done, you will not have problems closing Google Chrome, because every time you open it you can click on the tabs fixed in the browser bar and they will open again.
We recommend you to set the ones you use frequently
and, in this way, you will be able to restore your pages easily in case you have an accident with them.
Extensions to avoid losing your eyelashes
Another way to avoid losing your recent tabs is to resort to Google Chrome extensions, such as ‘Closed Tabs Chrome Extension’, as these help us to save a copy of them.
let’s see 3 of the most used ones!
OneTab:
just by clicking on the icon of this extension, it will save all the open tabs so you can easily recover them. Additionally, it will suspend those you are not using, which will allow you to save RAM memory and make your computer run faster.
Closed Tabs:
this is one of the most popular extensions. It allows us to restore Chrome tabs, as it stores all the ones we have recently closed.
Tabs Outliner:
finally, this extension performs session and tab manager functions, which makes it a very good option when it comes to restoring closed tabs in Google Chrome.
And that’s it! Now you know how to recover an accidentally closed window and some additional tricks