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!
How do you people make the screenshots of popups in Firefox? Every time I press Print Screen they just keep fading away.
I think it’s ALT + SHIFT + S. That is one thing windows gets right. Though I believe they made a new version that is a bit worse for some reason beyond a this mortal’s understanding.
I use this several times per day when I close the wrong tab (or window). :)
Command + Shift + T on mac os, and Ctrl + Shift + T for Windows
You’re welcome
I’m not a fan of that shortcut though:
- Ctrl+T - open new tab; Ctrl+shift+T - reopen closed tab
- Ctrl+N - open new window; Ctrl+shift+N - reopen closed window
- Ctrl+P - print (or apparently preview on Lemmy); Ctrl+shift+P - private window?
It breaks the nice pattern.
That’s last closed tab, not window.
Edit: actually it will reopen a window too if the last closed tab was on it.
I’m still confused. You can delete your history and bookmarks and it is even easier to not create them in the first place, if that’s what you want.
Wait, what? You don’t want them to save bookmarks? Then what is the use of a bookmark? And you can definitely set your browser to erase your history every time you close it.
Are you talking about them syncing to your Firefox account? Because you can turn that off or just not sign in.
The whole point of bookmarks is that they are saved sites so why would they automatically delete them? Also just click on Manage Bookmarks or Manage History and you can delete anything from there… If you don’t want history to be saved then use a private window.
You mean “recent bookmarks”? Huh, never noticed that was there. I think it’s probably locally stored and not really a thing websites can just access.
After reading the parent comment, I [think I] finally understand what you’re on about.
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There’s no reason to suspect the “recently bookmarked” list would be tracked; that’s just downright paranoid.
…but you can?
Right click any bookmark under the hamburger menu, and select Delete Bookmark. It deletes. You can also delete all in the bookmark manager. But those seem like a non-issue, since they have to be manually created.
Same thing works under History in the hamburger menu. Right-click any item in history and select Delete Page. It deletes. Same as above, all can be deleted in manager or by selecting Clear Recent History > Time Range to Clear = Everything.
Firefox will not store history at all if you go to Settings > Privacy and Security > set “Firefox will” to “Never remember history”.
So… ?
You can’t right click and delete it from the history.
I tried it before commenting. You can.
But if it’s saving your history while being set otherwise, it sounds like you have a config issue.
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).
yeah if I did ctrl-shift-T and didn’t get my tab back on a modern browser I’d assume it was a bug lol
This about reopening entire Windows that you closed, which you can undo since version 116, released August 1.
The keyboard shortcut to reopen closed tabs (Ctrl + shift + t or Command + shift + t depending on your operating system) now reopens last closed tab or last closed window, in the order items were closed. If there aren’t any tabs or windows to reopen, this command restores the previous session. This change is in anticipation of upcoming changes to recently closed tabs.
Nope, this feature has existed forever. They just changed the shortcut, previously it was Ctrl-shift-T for re-opening the last closed tab and Ctrl-shift-N for re-opening the last closed window.
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.
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.
