Last updated on August 17th, 2020
Have you ever been working on multiple tabs and accidentally closed your Chrome window or a particular tab? Chrome lets you quickly reopen tabs and windows you’ve recently closed. Here is how you can restore tabs in chrome.
How to Reopen Closed tab on accident
- On your computer right-click on your Chrome Tab bar > Select Reopen closed tab.
- You can also press Ctrl+Shift+T (or Command+Shift+T on a Mac) to reopen a closed tab with a keyboard shortcut.
How to Restore Recently closed Tabs
You can see recently closed tabs on all of your devices if you have synced your chrome browser across devices.
- Click ⋮. It’s in the top-right corner of the window. A drop-down menu will appear.
- Hover over the “History” option.
- You should see a list of all the most recently used tabs divided by device. Choose the tab you want to re-open.
- To browse the complete history you can click on ⋮ > History > History.
How to Restore Tabs when Chrome or Computer crashed
A computer crash is never a good 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. Normally, when you restart Chrome, it shows a “restore tabs” button. This option will fully restore your last browsing session.
If you do not get an option to “restore tabs” then here is how you can still restore.
- Click ⋮. It’s in the top-right corner of the window. A drop-down menu will appear.
- Hover over the “History” option.
- There you should see an option that reads “# tabs”. You can click this option to restore your previous session.
If you were browsing incognito (private mode) and you lose your tabs, Chrome will not be able to restore them.