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How to Reopen and Recover a Browser Tab – Relief is Available

March 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Woman frustrated with her computerEver close a browser tab by mistake before you’re done reading the web page?  Argh!  That’s so annoying!  You might panic because you found this great site, but you haven’t bookmarked it yet, and think you’ll never be able to find it again.   I know, because it’s happened to me!

Well guess what?  You can reopen it in a snap!  All you need is a quick keyboard shortcut.

Just press the “Control”-”Shift”-”T” keys together.

This is just like you do the good old Control-Alt-Delete trick.  Voila!  That tab is back!

While we’re on the subject, you can reopen all your pages if you close the entire browser window!

Just press the “Control”-”Shift”-”N”.

This works with all 3 major browsers, Firefox, Chrome and IE.  Not sure about Safari or Opera.

I hope this post make your browsing more pleasant.  If you’d like to read more of our posts or learn more about our company, please visit our Tucson Computer Repair website at saguaropc.com.

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Firefox Tweak on Windows 7: Display Preview of All Open Tabs

March 20, 2010 By

Ever wonder why Firefox doesn’t show previews of all the open tab pages when you hover over it in the task bar?  Well, by default, the Aero preview does not show them like IE does.

You can enable it as follows:

Open Firefox 3.6 (or later) and type about:config in the Location Bar.
You’ll have to click to get past this
warning dialog box and open the Preferences page. Use the Filter box (or just scroll down) to find

browser.taskbar.previews.enable in the list of preferences.

Note that by default it’s set to false. Double-click to toggle the setting to true. The value in the Status
column changes to user set and the entire entry turns bold to indicate it’s been changed.

Every tab (even if those tabs are in separate windows) is now visible from the taskbar previews. You can
change the focus to any tab temporarily by pointing at it, and you can close any tab from its thumbnail
preview using the X in the upper right corner.

This tweak was presented by Saguaro PC Tech.

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