Firefox has featured tabbed browsing for some time now, which is very useful when viewing multiple websites. Generally, I have no less than 3 tabs open at a time, and have had well in excess of 50 browsing tabs open on more than one occasion.

Every now and then, I’ll close a tab and immediately think “GOLLY GEE WILLICKERS, I didn’t mean to close THAT tab!”. Then I would have to dig thru my history to try and find that tab and re-open it.

Firefox 2.0 introduced a new built-in feature, session manager, which is designed to restore previous browsing sessions in the event of a crash. Along with this new feature is the ability to RESTORE CLOSED TABS!! This feature is a huge bonus and almost makes me as happy as the time when that punk space ninja dude got his legs and arm chopped off when he was fighting that other galactic gypsy guy by the lava river in that space movie.

If you close a tab on accident (or on purpose) and want it back, just add the “shift” key to the new tab keyboard shortcut, and your closed tab will pop back up! Keep pressing CTRL+SHIFT+T and other closed tabs will continue to be resurrected….even if you close Firefox completely and relaunch it, your old tabs from the last time you used Firefox will be restored.

At first when I saw this tip I was like, “meh. yawn. borrring.”, but now I get it. No longer do I spend countless seconds searching thru my browser history. Never again shall I waste valuable surf time scouring RSS feeds for that news niblet that I wanted. Thumbs up to you, Firefox!