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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.
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.
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.
Imagine that you're working on an important assignment and have a ton of Chrome tabs open. Out of the corner of your eye, you spot yet another prompt asking you to install the latest Windows 10 update. 'Not now Microsoft!' — You think and move your mouse over to click on Remind me later once again. But in a hurry, you click on Restart now instead.
Pandemonium breaks loose as you struggle to save your progress, but the damage has taken place already. And while Google Docs will retain all your progress, you're not sure if Chrome will give you the option to restore the previous session. As you wait patiently, Windows takes its time to complete the update and boot up your system. You open up Chrome, and to your horror, the Restore option doesn't pop-up.
Now there are a couple of ways you can get back all your lost tabs. You can either jump into the browsing history and open the recently visited websites one by one OR you can read on to find out two easier solutions.
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Now even when the Restore option doesn't pop-up, Chrome offers a nifty little way to reopen closed tabs after a restart. Just follow these steps to reopen closed tabs:
Step 1: Open up Chrome and click on the three-dot menu button in the top right corner.
Step 2: Hover the cursor over the History option, and a drop-down menu should appear next to it. This menu will include all of your recently open websites, along with another cool feature.
Step 3: Under the Recently closed option in the drop-down menu, you'll notice an option listing the number of tabs that were open in the previous session. Just click on it to open up all the tabs you lost because of the restart.
How to Restore Chrome Tabs After Restart Using Session Buddy
That isn't the only way you can restore Chrome tabs after a restart, and there's a chance it might not work if you open and close more tabs after the restart. So if you want to make sure that you don't lose any progress because of a sudden crash or restart, you should install the Session Buddy Chrome extension.
The Chrome extension aims to provide you with unified sessions and bookmarks manager, which will allow you to save open tabs and restore them later easily. Along with that, it also lets you manage all the open windows and tabs in one place, organize saved tabs by topic, search through all open tabs to find the one you're looking for and even export tabs in a variety of different formats.
Here's a brief tutorial on how you can restore Chrome tabs after a restart using Session Buddy:
Step 1: Follow this link to the Chrome Web Store and install Session Buddy by clicking on the Add to Chrome button.
Step 2: Click on Add extension in the following prompt to proceed with the installation.
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Step 3: Click on the Session Buddy icon to the right of the Omni bar to open up the extension.
Step 4: Click on the Save button in the top right corner to save your current browsing session, along with all the open windows and tabs.
Step 5: Give the current session a name in the following prompt and then click on OK. In case you don't want to name your session, you can also check the box next to the Never ask for name option.
Session Buddy now saves all your tabs, and you can easily access them by selecting the session from the Saved Sessions list to the left. Now if you don't want to bother saving sessions manually, you'd be glad to know that the extension also saves sessions automatically.
By default, the extension saves up to three sessions automatically and shows them in the Saved Sessions list to the left. Just follow these steps in case you wish to configure the number of automatically saved sessions:
Step 1: Click on the settings cog in the top right corner to open the settings menu.
Step 2: Select the Settings option from the drop-down menu to open up the extension settings.
Step 3: On the General tab, the first option should be turned on and then click on the number of previous sessions. You should select a higher number if you want to store more sessions.
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Step 4: Click on the Save button in the settings pop-up to save the changes.
Sessions Buddy will now automatically record sessions and show up to 10 previous sessions in the Saved Sessions list. With the extension installed, you'll never have to worry about losing your Chrome tabs after a random restart.
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So now that you know how to reopen your Chrome tabs after a restart, what are you waiting for? Install Session Buddy right away and browse the web peacefully, knowing that your tabs are safe from random reboots.
Next up: Tired of Chrome restoring tabs automatically? Check out the next article to see how you can stop the browser from doing that.
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