IE8: Reopen Closed Tabs

Contributor Icon Contributed by shamanstears Date Icon October 6, 2008  
Tag Icon Tagged: Browsers

You finally get to the webpage that you have been surfing for and now you have accidentally closed the tab. This can be a very frustrating situation. Luckily, Internet Explorer 8 is quite forgiving and allows you to easily reopen the closed tab, even if you have closed other tabs after it.

Using a Keyboard Shortcut:

By using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+T, IE8 will open the last tab that was closed. Use the keyboard shortcut again, and it will open the tab that was closed before that, and so on. You can use this method to restore up to the last 10 tabs that have been closed during your browsing session.

Using the New Tab Page:

Go to the tab area and click the new tab button to open up a new tab.

Go to the Reopen closed tabs section. You will find a list of the last 10 tabs that have recently been closed during your browser session.

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  • jy
    I dont like this feature unless I have the option to disable it.. I havn't find how to disable it yet. what about if I do not want other see the pages I opened and we use one account?
  • jf
    how do I turn this annoying feature off!
  • Alok
    it also works with firefox
  • Charlie
    I'm also trying to find a way to disable this "feature". I thought browsing "InPrivate" should turn off everything but not this annoying feature. Anyone have a solution to turn this off, I'd appreciated.
  • stan
    how can I stop reopen from offering closed tabs without being told to show closed tabs.
  • AR
    I don't want people to see what i've been on. How do you disable it?
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