How to restore tabs on Chrome

I close tabs on Chrome. Like, all the time.

Apparently this is some sort of cardinal sin, and I'm supposed to use tab groups to keep things tidy, but I prefer to just make whatever I'm not working on go away. Google's creepy memory of every site I've ever visited makes it much quicker to just type a word related to the tab I want to open than to look through a bunch of open tabs to find the one I want.

BUT: sometimes I close a tab when I don't mean to. I panicked when I thought Chrome took this feature away, but it turns out they just hid it. Here's how to restore tabs on Chrome.

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How to restore Chrome tabs

To restore a Chrome tab:

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1. Right-click the gray area all the way to the right of your open tabs. (It might be tiny if you have a lot of tabs open.)

2. Select Reopen Closed Tab.

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You can keep doing this as many times as you want, and it'll keep reopening old tabs (even if they were open in a separate window). I can't say it's infinite, but I've definitely gone at least a dozen deep, and it's worked.

Bonus feature: if you close out of Chrome completely and then realize you want all your tabs from your previous session, you can do the same right-click action, and the option will now be Reopen Closed Window. All your tabs from your previous session will reappear.

Please close your tabs

It's a neat feature, and it gives you more confidence to close tabs, so you don't end up with this.

(I had to ask a coworker for a screenshot because I would never…)