
Command-5, for example, jumps you to the fifth tab from the left. Command-1 jumps you to your first (left-most) tab. To jump to a specific tab of the many you have open, press Command and any number key between 1 and 9. On Windows, use Ctrl-Tab to move to the right and Ctrl-Shift-Tab to move to the left. Use Command-Option-right arrow to jump one tab to the right, and use Command-Option-left arrow to jump one tab to the left. Also, Shift-click to open a link in a new window. Likewise, use Command-Shift-click to open link in new tab and switch to it. To take control of this behavior, press Command when you click a link to stay on your current page while opening the link in a new tab in the background. The process is beautifully explained by Himanshu in a previous post.Some links are coded to open in the current tab while others open in a new tab. If you have accidently closed your browser or if it has crashed, you can always restore the complete browsing session so that you don’t have to start from scratch every time. You can also use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+T. To reopen individual last closed tabs, right click on an empty area on tab strip and select reopen closed tab. Restoring tabs in Google Chrome is more or less same like it is in Internet Explorer 9. To enable the command bar right-click on a blank area near the tab strip in internet explorer and click on Command bar to activate it.įrom now on whenever you want to resume your last browsing session click on Tools –> Reopen last browsing session.

By default the command bar is hidden and thus you will have to activate it. You can keep on repeating the process if you closed more than tab accidently.Īgain, if you accidently closed your browser you can reopen last browsing session using the command bar. To reopen recently closed tab right click on any of the active tabs and select reopen closed tabs from the context menu. You can either reopen closed tab or restore the browsing session. There are two ways to restore tabs in Internet Explorer 9. The browsers we will take up are IE 9, Chrome, Firefox and Opera. How? We will see exactly how in this post. Now I can easily recall all my accidently or recently closed tabs across various browsers in just a few mouse clicks. With so many tabs open at the same time it doesn’t take much time for my laptop to become sluggish, and thus out of frustration I sometimes close all my tabs to reclaim the virtual memory not realizing that I have closed an important website without even bookmarking it. When I work on my browser I usually get stuck with an overwhelmed tab strip that has a huge number of tabs open concurrently.
