How to restore closed tabs and sessions in your web browser
You’re surfing the web, don’t have time to finish picking out the perfect shoes or reading an interesting article – and then you close the wrong browser tab by mistake and your page is gone. Or even worse, your entire browser closes with all your open tabs. No worries! did you know most browsers will let you restore your tabs or entire browser session?
Keep reading to find out how to restore tabs in your web browser.
Good to know: Restoring all tabs after a browser crash
If a system error causes your browser to crash, in most cases it will automatically ask if you want to restore the last session when you restart the browser. Just confirm the action and you’ll get all your tabs back. You can also change the settings in most browsers so that your last session is automatically reloaded whenever you open the program, no matter what caused it to close. Keep reading to find out how!
In the Chrome browser, the entire browsing session can only be restored following a program crash. If you accidentally closed the browser yourself, you will have to restore each tab manually as follows:
To restore your last closed tab, right-click anywhere on the tab section, then select Reopen closed tab. To restore multiple tabs, open the settings menu (three dots at the top right of the address bar). Now click History and select History again in the new menu. You will now see your recent browsing history. Hold down the [Ctrl] key and click all the tabs you wish to restore.
You can also set up Chrome to auto-restore your last browsing session every time you restart the browser. This means that every time you close the browser, next time you open it you will automatically pick up where you left off. Open your Settings and click the On Startup tab. Now tick the Continue where you left off option to activate this function.
The Firefox browser lets you restore your full browsing session at any time. Simply open the Settings menu (three horizontal lines in the top right of the address bar) and select History > Restore Previous Session. To reopen an individual tab that you accidently closed, you can instead click History > Recently closed tabs and select a tab to reopen. All webpages you have viewed recently are also listed under your Recent history, so you can scroll down and find the page you’d like to return to. Clicking Manage history will take you to a list of visited pages sorted by time period (today, yesterday, etc.)
Please note that if you have activated Never remember history in your Firefox Privacy & Security settings, once you have closed the browser, it is no longer possible to restore the last session or reopen recently closed tabs.
If you would like Firefox to automatically return to your last browsing session every time you open it, go to Settings > General > Startup and tick Restore previous session.
If you accidently close a tab in the Microsoft web browser, right-click on an open tab (not in the empty address bar) and select Reopen closed tab to select a tab to restore. If you accidently close the entire browser, reopen it and do the same thing.
It is also possible to set up Edge to automatically return to your most recent browsing session when you open the browser. Click the three dots in the upper right corner of the window, then Settings > On startup > Continue where you left off.
It is extremely easy to restore tabs on your Mac. To get back to your Safari browsing session, simply open Safari and go to the menu. Select History and then Reopen all windows from last session.
In a few clicks, you can restore tabs or change browser settings so you always pick up where you left off
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