How to reopen the last closed tab (Firefox)

February 2nd, 2007 at 11:07 pm (Technology, Web)

Courtesy of lifehacker, today I learned how to reopen the last tab I closed in Firefox. Perfect for those overly zealous command-W moments! And how do you do it? Why, command-shift-T! Nicely cognitively adjacent to command-T, which opens a new (blank) tab. (Bonus: their article also mentions command-L, which moves focus to the address bar — I didn’t know that one either. Hurray, yet another click I don’t have to make any more!)

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  1. jim said,

    February 2, 2007 at 11:25 pm

    (Learned something new!)

    I didn’t know about the Control*-shift-T option – I’d been using the TabMix plugin for some of my extreme groupings. (In windows, alt-D is also a shortcut to get to the address bar.)

  2. geoff said,

    February 3, 2007 at 7:47 am

    (Learned something new!)

    Huh, I thought Safari was more popular on the Mac.

    You may also enjoy a few settings to pare down its memory usage, which after long sessions with many tabs can become painfully large, at least for me on my windows machine.

    http://engtech.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/how-to-fix-the-firefox-memory-leak-firefox-hack/

  3. Iain said,

    February 3, 2007 at 9:18 am

    (Learned something new!)

    Ooh! Now I wish I knew how to do that in Opera.

  4. Iain said,

    February 3, 2007 at 7:02 pm

    (Learned something new!)

    Follow up.

    The way to do this in Opera is Ctrl-Alt-Z… The mnemonic is that Ctrl-Z is ‘Undo’.

    (Sorry about the Opera fixation. If Mozilla zoomed as nicely as Opera I would use it. Now, if only Opera were as _stable_ as Mozilla)

  5. wkiri said,

    February 7, 2007 at 9:46 pm

    (Learned something new!)

    This is great — I post about something that I learned and get a list of more fun new things from you all!

    Jim: I hadn’t heard of TabMix before… thanks!

    Geoff: Thanks for the pointer! I haven’t had Firefox memory problems on my Mac (that I’ve noticed)… yet, anyway. Good to know.

    Iain: Cool… next time I’m using my home linux machine (woefully un-upgraded, it doesn’ t have any Firefox versions — but I did become fond of Opera on it), I’ll try Ctrl-Alt-Z!

  6. Marcy said,

    March 8, 2007 at 10:18 am

    (Learned something new!)

    This is the best tip ever! Thank you SO much for teaching me!

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