Recover and Reopen Accidentally Closed Tab on FireFox Web Browser
FireFox web browser has a neat feature called tabbed browsing where users can surf the Internet and loads the Web pages in separate tabs of a single browser window without the need to open multiple browser windows that filling up the taskbar and messing up the desktop space. But tabbed browser also have higher chance of user unknowingly or accidentally closes a tab which he or she still wants to browse. If the web page in that tab contains important information or valuable works, and not been bookmarked, then the user might have hard time trying to find back the website or page link location URL again.
To avoid this problem, FireFox users can use and upgrade to FireFox 2, which has improved tabbed browsing features. Among the features is ability for users to re-open an accidentally closed tab by using a shortcut Ctrl+Shift+T, or by right clicking on the tab bar, the select “Undo Close Tab”. FireFox 2 will cache and keep track of a list of recently closed tabs in the History menu so that after the web page in the tab has been closed, but FireFox can still retrieves it and displays the web page on the new tab.
If you’re using FireFox 1.5 which doesn’t have the ‘reopen closed tabs’ feature, you have to install FireFox extension (plugin) that provides this capability in order for FireFox 1.5 or FireFox 1.6 users to allow recently closed tabs to be reopened feature. Among the plug-ins or FireFox extensions that have this feature are:
- Session Manager
- undoclosetab 20040617 (not updated since 2004, you may need to read through the comments to find updated version by other users).
- Tab Clicking Options
- undoclosetab 20051204
- Click2Tab
- Tab Mix
Most of these FireFox extensions offer more than simply allow users to reopen (accidentally) closed windows and tabs, or after the tab or window crashes.
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October 14th, 2006 04:07
1) how about using a browser that isn’t crap
2) now who doesn’t know what tabbed browsing means when you are reading a blog called “my digital life”?
3) does it have a feature to lock certain tags so i won’t close them on accident?
4) how about just looking at your history and looking at the last page you have visited when something like that happens?
October 25th, 2006 21:20
[...] Mozilla Foundation has released the latest version of popular web browser - FireFox 2.0. FireFox 2 features new features and enhancements for better users web experience. Among the improvements are enhanced tabbed browsing. With the FireFox 2 enhanced tabbed browsing, users will now has new web pages opened in tabs by default, and when users have too many tabs opened, a scroll arrows will appear on either side of tabs slide, allowing users to switch (or scroll) to other open tabs. A button on the right side will displays an easy-to-read list of all open tabs. Beside, each tabs has its own close button too, just like in IE7. If you don’t like the new feature of close button appears on each and every tabs, or fear that you may accidently close a tab (you can actually re-open closed tabs from “Recently Closed Tabs” in History menu to bring it back to FireFox browser, of course, without any unsaved work), or have been too familiar or just want back or revert to the old FireFox 1.5 style of tabbed browsing close button at the end of the Tab bar, you can modify a setting to instruct FireFox to hide the close button on the tabs itself and display the close button at the end of the bar instead. [...]
November 5th, 2006 12:28
Thanks for the tip. I was unaware of this feature in Firefox 2 and was going to install ‘Tab mix Plus’ just for this.