How to Restore Tabs in Chrome

This article explains how to restore recently closed Chrome tabs.

Why Did All My Chrome Tabs Disappear?

There are many reasons one or all of your open Chrome tabs might disappear.

• You've accidentally clicked the "x" on the Chrome tab.
• The process running that Chrome tab crashed.
• Your entire Chrome browser crashed and closed.
• Chrome froze because it ran out of memory, so you had to restart the browser.
• Your browser toolbar disappeared, which includes tabs.

There are a number of ways you can recover the tabs that you previously had open.

How Do I Recover Lost Tabs in Chrome?

Each of the causes listed above have their own individual solution to restore the tab or tabs. The easiest solution is to restore a single tab, or several tabs, you have just accidentally closed. If you performed other searches or activities since closing the tab, you may have to use the browser history instead.

Recover a Tab You Just Closed in Chrome

There are two ways to restore tabs in Chrome if you've just closed them.

1. After closing the tab (either accidentally or intentionally), just right-click on the plus (+) icon to the right of the current tab. Select Reopen closed tab.

   You can repeat this process multiple times to continue opening previous tabs that you might have accidentally closed.

2. Another method to do this is using a keyboard shortcut. Just hold down the Ctrl and Shift keys on your keyboard and press the "T" key. Each time you press "T" it will restore each of the previous tabs you accidentally closed.

Recover Tabs You Previously Closed in Chrome

If you've opened and closed many tabs but want to recover a tab you opened a while back, the only way to do so is to use your history in Chrome. There are easy ways to find the closed tab if you have a general idea when you last had it open.

1. To access recent tabs you may have had open over the past few hours, just select the three dots at the upper right corner of the browser window. Select History. You'll see a list of recent tabs you had open. Select any of these to reopen that page.

2. If you don't see the tab in the short term history, then select History at the top of the list. This will open a listing of past tabs you had open over a longer time range. Scroll down to see the tabs you had open a few hours or a few days ago.

3. If you select Tabs from other devices in the left menu, you can even see tabs you had open on your smartphone, tablet, or laptop; so long as you were logged into those devices using your Google account and had browser history tracking enabled.