I generally have a “home” Firefox window with my most used tabs pinned. Sometimes I close it before another window, so I was frustrated to “lose” it and having to redo my pins. But recently I discovered this feature. Joy!

  • radix@lemm.ee
    62·
    2 years ago

    How would people function without knowing this?? Maybe I’m just young, but this has been a thing as far back as I can remember (maybe 2010 or so), on all browsers I’ve used (Safari, Chrome, Firefox).

    • Aram855@feddit.cl
      12·
      2 years ago

      It got removed from chrome a while ago. Have to use an extension for it.

      • geno@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 years ago

        What are you talking about? I used it like 2 days ago last time, no plugins. Not sure if there’s a hotkey for reopening a closed window (ctrl shift T?), but you can find it from the menu in upper right corner of the browser.

        • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          Yeah, same here. I use it fairly regularly because I’m a dumbass who closes the wrong window all the time

        • Aram855@feddit.cl
          1·
          2 years ago

          I actually checked and nope, it’s not there. Been like a year since this? what the fuck?

          EDIT: I’m a moron. What happened is that before you could reopen one by right clicking any tab and clicking the option, but that option was removed. I never did the “click the empty space after the tabs” thing because I normally run 50 tabs at the same time.

  • Lenny@lemmy.zip
    12·
    2 years ago

    I can still feel the pain when it’s 2 AM and you meant to Ctrl + Shift + T and you’re muscle memory leaks in and hits you with the Ctrl + Shift + W.

    FYI there’s a confirm close option that will mitigate this terrible scenario, for anyone that’s been there before.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      2 years ago

      Or just Ctrl+shift+N will reopen that window. It has been there for years, perhaps more than a decade, and is the perfect companion to Ctrl+N, just like Ctrl+shift+T is the perfect companion to Ctrl+T.

  • entropicshart@sh.itjust.works
    71·
    2 years ago

    I wish Firefox had a method to restore windows after a restart. Losing all my tabs across multiple windows due to work required updates is a huge pain.

    • Robmart@lemm.ee
      9·
      2 years ago

      This is literally a thing? You just go to options and tick General -> Startup -> Open previous windows and tabs. It is quite literally the first option in the interface. I only mean to be a slight bit rude, but did you not even take a cursory look through the options?

    • superfiercelink@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 years ago

      If you can use extensions, I use the Tab Session Manager extension. It has a ton of features too but the big one is auto saving your sessions so you can always restore it all after a restart.

    • Aa!@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 years ago

      It’s funny, it does do this when Windows restarts outside of your control.

      But if you manually trigger a reboot, it assumes you closed all your windows intentionally.

      At least that’s how it behaves for me

    • Albbi@lemmy.ca
      2·
      2 years ago

      There is a “recently closed windows” section in the history area. You can get all your tabs back.

    • oce 🐆@jlai.luOP
      07·
      2 years ago

      I don’t understand this thread, this is exactly what I’m talking about in my OP.

  • vintprox@geddit.socialEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    How do you people make the screenshots of popups in Firefox? Every time I press Print Screen they just keep fading away.

  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
    4·
    2 years ago

    It also persists through a reboot, so if you shutdown or reboot with tabs open, it will ask you to restore the previous session when you next start it after the boot.

    If you didn’t restore it, but didn’t open any more tabs, you can close it again, reboot, etc, and this option will still work to get your tabs back when you’re ready.

  • Forcen@lemmy.oneEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    Only the last three or so windows though, so if you got a few pop-ups before you press that you might be screwed…

    …unless you have backups of an old session file, then you can use this tool to restore a list of those tabs: https://www.jeffersonscher.com/ffu/scrounger.html

    There is also this handy addon for saving backups of windows like that to a txt list of urls: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/urls-list/