The Google Chrome Bookmarks Bar sometimes vanishes or isn't accessible, appearing to lose all of your favorite links. The usual culprit is either a bad website load or an accidental press on the keyboard. Depending on your version of Chrome, you can restore the Bookmarks Bar with shortcut keys or by tweaking Chrome's options. Chrome, or your computer, crashed. All of your tabs are gone, and what’s worse, there’s no button offering to “Re-open Last Session” when you reload Chrome. Maybe you missed it? Or maybe it was never there. Either way, you’d really like to find those tabs back. I was first excited for Chrome's group feature, thinking the groups could be easily saved and accessed for later use. That turned out to be a bit of a disappointment. I have also never found a Chrome Extension, that allows powerful tab management, without doing too much, complicating the experience, or just having a clean and nice user interface.
Chrome has become the world's most popular web browser by offering performance and features that best its competitors. But this rise in popularity has led many to struggle with losing important web pages, research, and sessions with lost or closed chrome tabs.
Imagine you are doing research for a project and, after clicking through a ton of links, arrive at the perfect source of information. You have no idea how you got there, but you're there now and that's all that matters.?
You're working on notes, emails, switching tabs, everything is going great… until disaster strikes: you accidentally click the wrong pixel and the tab you needed disappears without warning. ?
Or, to no fault of your own, Chrome decides to crash on you for no apparent reason.
You don't have to worry. You're not the first person this has happened to, and you won't be the last. Luckily Google Chrome remembers your web page browsing history, and regardless of what went wrong you should be able to fully recover.
Here's a few ways you can easily restore closed tabs in Chrome if this ever happens to you.
Closed tab on accident
If you simply clicked the wrong pixel and closed a tab you didn't mean to, it's easy to restore. You can simply right-click an empty area in the tab bar section and choose reopen closed tabs.
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You can also use a keyboard shortcut — press Ctrl+Shift+T (or Command+Shift+T on a Mac) and the last tab you closed will reopen in a new tab page.
Chrome or computer crashed
A computer crash is never a pleasant experience, but you don't have to worry about Chrome losing your current session.
Google Chrome can handle a crash gracefully when you lose all your open tabs. Usually when you restart Chrome, it shows a 'restore tabs' button. This option will fully restore your last browsing session. Click it, and you're right back where you left off.
If you do not get this option, it's okay. Click the Chrome menu and hover your cursor over the history menu item. There you should see an option that reads '# tabs' for example '12 tabs'. You can click this option to restore your previous session.
The Ctrl+Shift+T command can also reopen crashed or closed Chrome windows. You can keep pressing this shortcut until it runs out of tabs and closed windows to restore.
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Restore recently closed tabs
Similarly, you can restore recently closed tabs by again clicking the Chrome menu and hovering your cursor over the history menu item. A short summary of pages you recently visited will be listed there as well.
If the page you want to restore is listed there, you can click to restore it. If it is not there, you can try the next approach.
Tab you closed the other day
If you don't see the web page you want to recover yet, click the history submenu item (chrome menu > history > history). Or you can use the shortcut Ctrl+H (Mac: Command+Y).
This will show a full history of pages you visited. You should be able to find the page you wanted there. You can even search your web page history to make it easy if it has been a while since you closed or lost your tab.
Be careful - If you were browsing incognito (private mode) and you lose your tabs, Chrome will not remember them.
Tip
Bookmark web pages that you visit regularly by clicking the ⭐️ icon on the right side of the address bar. This will add a button to the Chrome browser — clicking this button will redirect the current tab to this web page.
Closed tabs can usually be recovered in two ways...
1) If the tab is manually closed, it can in many cases be recovered/reopened. With the Safari browser opened, touch-and-hold the “+” icon (top-right of the page); this will open a list of recently closed tabs. Simply select the tab you wish to reopen - and viola! Note also that the tab history is also recovered. It should be noted that tab recovery generally only works for tabs closed within the current session.
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2) If a tab is not directly recoverable, you can identify websites recently viewed from the History list. Simply touch the book-icon (top-left of the page) - then touch the History (clock) icon to reveal the recently viewed sites in reverse chronological order. Tap the page you wish to reopen.
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Hope you find these tips helpful.