tab restoration

[DanOmega]

Say if a tab does crash, have the ability to bring the pages that you were visiting back, when you start the next new tab. Or when Chrome is up, and your computer forces a restart, through some update thing or something, and have the tabs and such come back when yo start chrome again. I don't know if it already has this, since...Chrome has never failed on me yet.


***Alright, a hopefully, better explanation.....and a comparison. i'll test to double check in a minute.

Open 'zilla, go to a page, open Chrome, go to a page, and hit log off, DO NOT CLOSE THE BROWSERS....log back on, and next time 'zilla is run, it'll ask if you want to restore the session, Chrome does not do that exactly. you have to go through the history...which is ok i geuss, but it still would be great if it would open all the tabs, exactly.

NVM, my computer won't log off with those processes running, trying restart now. grr, that doesn't work either, But it my point a little clearer now, it'll force a restart when yo install certain programs, windows updates, and it'll show down the processes, and zilla will be restored next time it's run.

[digital0verdose]

You can actually set this in options, but it would be nice if it asked when you closed the browser if more than a single tab was open.

[Stuee]

Yes that's one thing that I was very surprised to see missing from Chrome.
If you close a tab, and then realise you need it after all, there's no way of re-opening it (apart from trawling through the history, but then if you closed it accidentally you might not even know which tab you closed!).

Firefox has this sewn up. There is a button which re-opens closed tabs in reverse order - so the most recent first. I use it a LOT.

Chrome could trump this by offering a list of recently closed tabs, say when you hold down the button.

[digital0verdose]

Ctrl+Shift+T

[Stuee]

Ctrl+Shift+T

Ah great, thanks for that digO - I'll use it for sure, but how many people would prefer a button? I know my Mum would! lol

[digital0verdose]

Meh, shortcuts are more efficient imo.

[BlaqReaper]

What about the recently closed tabs section under the default home page?

[Stuee]

Meh, shortcuts are more efficient imo.

Mmyeah sometimes, but not always. If I've just closed a tab by clicking on the X (which IMO is more efficient than the CTRL+F4 'shortcut')...

Key combination method:
1. Move right hand from mouse to keyboard (and left hand to CTRL+SHIFT)
2. Take eyes off the screen to locate the T
3. Eyes back on the screen to confirm tab reopening
4. Hit the key combination
5. Eyes off the screen to locate the mouse
6. Move right hand back to the mouse
7. Move eyes back to the screen

Button method:
1. Move cursor to button
2. Click button

Even if I was typing already I've still got to take my eyes off the screen to make sure I hit the 3 keys correctly.

Anyway, regardless of that, key combinations are great if you happen to know them, can remember them, and can physically manage them.
But for people with limited computer literacy, limited dexterity, limited memory, etc., a button is much easier.
After all, that's what a GUI is supposed to be isn't it? A Graphical User Interface i.e. pictures and buttons!

Anyway if there was a button, I'm sure there'd be an option (for geeks like us) to hide it

[Stuee]

What about the recently closed tabs section under the default home page?

No that's for when you open Chrome. We're talking about re-opening individual tabs during a session.

[digital0verdose]

Ill give you that, but that X also does not add to the minimalist presentation that Chrome presents which, imo, is a big draw to the browser.