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Mac 101: Restore a Safari window


For those of you that use tabbed browsing in Safari, you know how frustrating it can be when you accidentally close a window full of tabs. Well, if you are using Safari 3 you can get that window back, along with all of the tabs. When you accidentally close a window full of tabs, just click "History" in the menu bar and select "Reopen Last Closed Window." You can also use "Reopen All Windows From Last Session" if you accidentally closed Safari and need to get all of your windows and tabs back after re-launching Safari.

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For those of you that use tabbed browsing in Safari, you know how frustrating it can be when you accidentally close a window full of tabs....
 

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Temple Stark

Hey this is why I was using Firefox more, because I often open multiple tabs and don't get to them all before needing to go do something else.

Both are about the same for me but I wanted to be able to do both. That restore windows function will come in handy too, because I've occasionally closed off a whole window accidentally.

Thanks TUAW

Temple

April 01 2008 at 2:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
3stripe

Stand (http://hetima.com/safari/stand-e.htmlhttp://hetima.com/safari/stand-e.html) will restore a previous set of tabs on re-opening Safari.

The restore closed tab menu item is great, but isn't there a keyboard shortcut for it?

I'm a Firefox user so I'm missing good old Apple+Shift+T, and also Apple+1/2/3/4/5 to switch between tabs.

Someone should make a Safari plugin to mimic these shortcuts!

February 26 2008 at 4:51 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
south

for those of you who only need the tab/window management features of Saft, or are too cheap to pay for it, i recommend Stand (freeware). i've been using it for a while now and it works pretty well. every session begins with a check box to select the tabs you want to reload, or combine them all into one window if you had several open.

one simple thing i'd like to see in Safari (or Stand) though, is this simple command: "Undo Close Tab".

February 25 2008 at 6:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
TanZing

Just use Saft. The problem with this in Safari is that it doesn't restore the window or tab history which makes it pretty useless to me. If it did that then I'd get rid of Saft as that is pretty much the only reason I use it.

February 25 2008 at 4:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ralph

OmniWeb has had this functionality for a while; nice to see it in Safari.

http://www.omnigroup.com


February 25 2008 at 2:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Gsol

I wish it would restore the window history when you reopen a window.

February 25 2008 at 2:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dasutin

does anyone know how to have safari open up a certain webpage every time you open up a new tab? I hate how it always opens up blank?

February 25 2008 at 2:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Justin Eaton

Shift-T when using Firefox. Just had to use it myself, when I typed out an entire article, and accidentally closed the wrong tab. Freaked out, hit Shift-T, and it had saved everything in the page. Beautiful.

February 25 2008 at 1:46 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jason

Someone pointed this out to me recently, and it's nice and all, but holy crap, why can't you just restore the tab set from your previous session automatically? At least make it an option. Every other browser has had this for ages. I simply want my browser to return to the exact state it was in when I closed it. I have to imagine this is a very common desire amongst users.

Anyone know if this restores the history of each tab as well? That feature in Firefox is great.

February 25 2008 at 1:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Henry

Agreed, i never used automator much but is there a way where every time you open safari is automatically does that? Or is that not what automator is used for (sorry i never used the automator).

February 25 2008 at 1:57 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mark

It seems so odd to me that they have these features but not an "open last closed tab" function, which is what i always used most in firefox. Is there some other way that you're supposed to open the last closed tab other than finding the page you were at in the history?

February 25 2008 at 1:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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