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Vladimir 01/19/2021
Users like to open many tabs at the same time and pin them so that the next day they do not have to look for website addresses on the Internet again, enter logins and passwords for access. Thus, once again you can simply launch the browser and it will open all yesterday’s tabs.
But it also often happens that the web browser crashes or the user himself unpins and closes pages, and later regrets it.
Let’s look at how to quickly restore your Internet session in more detail.
Ways to open tabs
In cases of failure in modern browsers, the previous session is restored using software. The application asks about this when it first starts after a crash. In this case, you just need to confirm this action, and the program will do everything automatically.
But, if suddenly such a function does not start for some reason, the user can use one of the following methods:
- Right-click on the active tab and select Open Closed Tab from the drop-down context menu
- enter Settings, open Recently closed tabs, select the desired page from the list provided and click on it - the page will open in a new window
- select sites from history: go to Settings, open History in the drop-down menu. When a chronological list of all previous entries to pages on the Internet appears, you should select from it the pages of interest, which will open in new windows
- being in an open browser window, get a list of sites by pressing two Ctrl+H keys together on the keyboard, from which select the one you need
- find a lost address by pressing the three-key combination Ctrl + Shift + T on your keyboard in an open web browser window
First, you should turn on Ctrl with one finger and, while holding this button, hold down Shift with the second finger, and the English letter T (Russian E) with the third finger.
This combination of buttons will open the latest entries to Internet resources in the address bar. Then, using the mouse, select the required site from among them.
View your browsing history
For modern browsers, there are several options for opening the last page. One of the simplest is to study your browsing history. For the convenience of users, all information about passwords, downloaded information and visited sites is stored in the log for several months.
Important! The maximum storage period for browsing history can be from 1 to 3 months, depending on the search engine, after which outdated addresses are replaced with more recent ones.
Restoring the current tab in the browser
To go to this tab, use the key combination Ctrl+”H” and Ctrl+Shift+”H”. Or through the browser menu, for which you will need to perform the following steps.
Keeping open tabs (Pin Tabs)
Browsers have the ability to pin or save any tab to your favorites list. When the appropriate actions are performed, the required address is added to a special place in the program and can be retrieved from there upon request.
This service is very helpful when the user regularly visits the same web resources, or has found a unique site that he is afraid of losing.
The section for saving your favorite web pages is called either Bookmarks or Favorites. It is designed to remember any number of addresses that are fixed there until the user himself deletes them.
Yandex browser
This service here is called Bookmarks Bar and can be found at the top of the program on the left (star icon).
Bookmarks bar
1 If you can’t find it there, you need to look in the upper right corner of the browser and, seeing a key with three horizontal lines there, click on it with the mouse, opening the settings. In the list of settings, click on the Bookmarks option and select Bookmark Manager.
Settings-Bookmarks-Bookmark Manager
2 In order for the page to be added to bookmarks or collections, you should look in the open window for the flag icon at the end of the address bar and click on it.
3 As a result, a message will be displayed that the link has been saved. By clicking Finish, you need to complete the action.
Adding a site to bookmarks
4 The pinned link to the site will be placed in the collection and will become available upon request. To remove it from there, left-click on the button with three vertical dots located in the upper right corner of the screen and select Delete
Removing a bookmark from a collection
The second way is to open saved website addresses through browser settings commands: → Bookmarks
Google Chrome
Allows you to save a site as a bookmark after clicking on the icon with an asterisk in its address bar.
1 When clicked, a corresponding message window appears indicating that a bookmark has been added. To complete the operation, click the Finish button or click on an empty space.
Adding a site to bookmarks
2 The Internet page will be added to the Bookmark Manager. By entering the browser settings, you can open it.
Bookmark Manager
3 If you want the bookmarks bar to be always visible, right-click on it and select the Show bookmarks bar option
Show bookmarks bar
4 As a result, it will be fixed on the screen.
New Folder Bookmarks Bar
In Chrome, you can manage tabs from other devices if the browser is synchronized with them.
Mozilla Firefox
Pinning a tab is done by clicking on the button with an asterisk, which can be found at the end of the address bar.
Adding a bookmark
1 If a window appears with a message that a bookmark has been added, this means that this site is stored in the browser’s memory.
Bookmarks menu and bookmarks sidebars
2 To find it next time, you should open the Bookmarks Menu in the panel at the top of the window on the right. First, the menu should be pinned there using the bookmark tools, which can be found in the Library, in the Bookmarks item. In addition, you can pin the sidebar and bookmarks menu to the left of the screen.
Show all tabs
3 If you expand the sidebar and menu items, you can call up a list of sites saved in bookmarks. If you go to the Library, and then to Bookmarks and select the Show all bookmarks option there, a window will open to configure them. There you can group them into folders, sort them or delete them.
Bookmark sorting options
Opera
You can pin tabs in this browser in the same way as in Google Chrome.
1 By clicking on the picture with a heart at the end of the address bar, the user receives a message box about pinning the tab.
Saving a site to bookmarks
2 The location for placing the link, which can be selected in this window, has the following options:
- bookmarks bar
- express panel
- other bookmarks
This choice determines where to look for the saved site.
3 The bookmarks bar is the bar at the top of the browser that can be found below the address bar.
Bookmarks bar
4 Express panel – the main page that opens in a new tab.
Express panel
5 You can enter Additional Bookmarks by clicking on the Bookmarks icon (shaped like a heart) and selecting Additional Bookmarks from the list that appears at the top left of the screen when clicked.
Internet Explorer
1 To add a site to bookmarks, there is a Tools icon (in the form of a gear) in the right corner of this web browser. To add, you need to press it or the Alt+X button combination.
2 As a result of these actions, a menu will open in which you should select the Internet Options option. In this window, on the General , in the Home Page , you must enter the URL of the web page you want to bookmark.
Adding a site to bookmarks
3 You can also click the Current if the desired site is currently loaded.
4 Don't worry about the home page being written there. New entries are simply added under this entry and will work similarly to pinned tabs in other browsers. After this, click the Apply button, and then OK.
Bookmark the current page
5 You should restart your browser. Thus, in Internet Explorer you can implement functionality similar to the Add page to bookmarks option in other web browsers.
Safari
1 In Safari, right-clicking on a tab opens a context menu with the item Pin tab .
2 You can also pin it by dragging it to the left side of the line. To unpin a tab, drag it to the right.
3 Tabs that are pinned appear in any web browser window and do not disappear even after the browser is closed.
4 Content, including video, is synchronized between windows.
5 To unpin a tab, right-click on the pinned tab and select Pin Tab or simply drag the tab to the right.
Edge
Add to favorites
To add a site to your bookmarks, click the Add to Favorites or Reading List button, rename your favorites (if necessary) and select the Add command.
Google Chrome
The control button is located at the top right and is marked with three dots. Click on it and a long list of commands will appear in front of us. We only need "History". You can click on it and go to the list of closed pages, or simply hover over it and a window with three lines will appear. We are interested in "Recently Closed" and "History".
How to get a closed tab back in Google Chrome browser
This browser has a Search in History search feature for previously viewed pages. This is convenient if you have forgotten the date of viewing, and the number of sites viewed is large.
Yandex
In many ways it copies the browser from Google. The opening procedure is as follows: find the menu button at the top right, the browser settings menu will appear, select the “history” line. We go to “recently closed” or open the entire history if the visit to the desired page was a long time ago.
How to return a tab that you closed in the Yandex browser
Mozilla Firefox
To find a closed page, use the menu launch button on the right side of the screen. In the list of commands that appears, find the “Journal” icon and click on it. A list of recently visited files will open in front of us, and at the bottom there will be a “Show entire log” button. In this section called “Library” you can see the entire history of visits and select the desired period. The browser has a search window for previously closed pages.
How to get back a tab you closed in Firefox
Opera
The capabilities of this browser to save a list of tabs closed during the current browser session are truly impressive. It saves more than 50 recently closed tabs. This is more than enough for most users. To view these tabs, click the menu button with the Opera logo in the upper left corner, select the “History” line in the list that appears, and select “Recently closed” in the next menu.
Method 5. Install extensions or try on the role of an IT specialist
If something goes wrong with your tabs on a regular basis, there are many extensions that can help you organize and save open sites. Our favorite is Session Buddy . This program will help you out more often than you can count.
Another way to save your tabs if you've closed your browser, your search history is too long, and you haven't installed any utilities is to tinker with the files. This method was described by Tessa Miller for Lifehacker.com back in 2013.
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On your computer, go to Chrome > User Data > Default .
Example paths (Windows):
[Path to profile] C:\Users\Alice\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default C:\Users\Alice\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data
More examples here.
In the user data directory, find these 4 files:
- Current Session
- Current Tabs
- Last Session
- Last Tabs
Copy them somewhere so you don't lose your data. You can always return everything as it was if something goes wrong.
Download a string finder such as Strings to manually extract tabs from files. Launch it, copy the necessary files into it one by one and save each one as a separate text document. For example, after processing by the program, we saved Current tabs as a text file ctabs.txt . Most of these utilities require the use of the command line, but there are probably GUI versions as well. If you find one, you'll be lucky.
Let's explain the whole process in practice. If you save the Strings application (strings.exe) to C:\New Folder and copy the four files there, you can extract the tabs like this:
C:\New folder >strings “current tabs” > ctabs.txt
C:\ New folder > strings "last tabs" > ltabs.txt
C:\ New folder > strings "current session" > csess.txt
C:\ New folder > strings "last session" > lsess.txt
You can now open the resulting ctabs.txt file and see the URLs of the tabs you opened previously. Please note: most likely, the list will show those sites that you have closed intentionally , and some links will be duplicated.
The csess.txt file will contain other information, such as text you entered into a blank form on a particular page. This can be very useful, especially when you have closed a page with a lot of manually entered information. So, luckily for you, you don't have to start all over again.
You can also try making another copy of "Last Session" and "Last Tabs", renaming the files to "Current Session" and "Current Tabs", and overwriting the existing "Current Session" and "Current Tabs" files in the user data directory. This will help you quickly restore your previous session if an error occurs in the browser and it closes .
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