I was going to stick this in some other thread, but I think it deserves it’s own.
BTW, it also recovers any text that you started typing as well.
People didn’t know this? It’s displayed right there in the dropdown menu under previously closed tabs. Ctrl-Shift-N open previously closed browser windows*.
Then again, I’ve recently taught two people I thought were computer literate what Alt-Tab does.
*: Browser history saving settings affect the ability to open closed tabs and windows, of course. Once I close my browser, my history is deleted. If I REALLY need something, I’ll just call the NSA for a restore.
And if you don’t want to memorize that, you can always right-click on the tab bar and select “Reopen closed tab”. There are some other useful commands in there too.
I didn’t know about it, and I consider myself reasonably computer-savvy.
That article seems to suggest that it’s Chrome-specific (which I have never used), but I just verified that it seems to work similarly in Firefox.
That’s what I do. It also offers “reopen closed window” if you’ve closed a whole window of tabs. I couldn’t have told you the keyboard shortcut, but it’s right there next to the menu item, so hardly a big secret.
PS It doesn’t work in incognito mode, of course, so if you accidentally shut your Xhamster tab then you’re on your own, bud.
Reading the thread title, I thought it was either going to be Windows-E or Ctrl-Shift-Esc. Everybody at work I’ve shown those to has been suitably impressed.
Yeah, I didn’t know about the shortcut, but right-clicking a tab in Firefox brings up a menu with an option for Undo Close Tab.
The shortcut I miss is Windows-Pause/Break to bring up the dialog for editing environment variables. I can never remember how to get to it without the shortcut, but my current keyboard doesn’t have a Pause/Break key.
I’ve never used those two, but I’m a fan of Windows+Print Sceen (Pause?) I’m on a laptop, which means I have to add the Fn key into the mix, I could have sworn it was Print Screen, but Pause is working for me. Anyways, it brings up the System Properties menu.
Anyways, for the people saying you can just right click the tab bar and it says “Reopen closed tab” right there, that’s Chrome specific. I don’t use Chrome except when I need two totally different browsers open. Otherwise I just use FF and it doesn’t say it there, otherwise I likely would have found it and some point in the last several years…even though I rarely right click up there, I probably would have done it for some reason or another.
New shortcut for me. I like it. 
Try Win key R - that brings up the Run box
I use Firefox and it definitely says it in the menu. To be fair, it says it next to the title of the most recently closed tab, not its own labeled selection.
I didn’t specifically know this key shortcut, but I right click and Undo close tab all the time.
It mentions FF and IE lower down.
Pause. Or Break, if you prefer to go that way. That is my most successful combination to blow minds. Unfortunately, I usually use it to access Device Manager quicker, so I wish they had a shortcut for that.
While we’re on the subject of tabs, I find that something like the addon “Session Manager” is a livesaver. Before there have been times where I would close my dozens of tabs, to retrieve later, only to find that a second window was open, and FF by default thinks that the last one close is what I want to save.
I just recently discovered what Win-Tab does on Win7 (and presumably Win8 and Vista).
Yes, Vista.
I found a handy new shortcut this week - in PowerPoint, if you tend to CTRL+C, CTRL+V a lot (that is, copy then paste), you can simply **CTRL+D **to ‘duplicate’ the item in one mighty keystroke!
Xhamster?
Don’t google it at work.
Heh, the other day at work, a coworker and I were looking for a specific text on a very long page. I typed Ctrl+F and typed in the text we were looking for.
She just looked at me wide eyed in amazement. “Holy crap! That’s the coolest thing ever! How’d you do that?!”
It’s mindboggling to think of the amount of man-hours wasted by people who don’t know what CTRL-F does.
I don’t use Power Point, that would be a tough one to get used to. In Photoshop, that’s “deselect” and just trying it in FF, it creates a bookmark.
I’ve never really been a Ctrl-V Ctrl-C person, I always just right click and use the copy and paste from there. Much faster IMO since your hand is already on the mouse. Actually, I just had to move this sentence. I realized that I use Shift-Delete and Shift-Insert. It makes more sense and it’s easier (physically) for my hands to do.
I use that so often that I’ll go to do it in an actual book when I’m trying to find something (kind of in the same way that you’ll go to unlock your house with your car key fob. I’m so used to doing it that when I go to find something in an actual book or computer print out that’s more then a few pages, I don’t even know where to start.
This post could have been written by me, word for word.