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The Greatest Keyboard Shortcut Ever
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Ryan Vogt writes in the Mercury News that Shakespeare described death as 'the undiscovere'd country, from whose bourn no traveller returns.' Did you know there is a the miraculous way to resuscitate tabs sent to the 'undiscovere'd country,' a sort of Ctrl-Z for the entire Internet, that means 'no more called-out cusswords, no more wishing the back button had you covered when, aiming to click on a tab, you accidentally hit the little X on the tab's starboard.' For Macs: Command [plus] shift [plus] t reopens the last tab. For PCs: Ctrl [plus] Shift [plus] T. 'Try it right now. Close this tab and bring it back. I dare ya.' Melia Robinson's trick [described for Chrome] works in Firefox and Internet Explorer, too, so clumsy mousing won't send the the E*Trade tab you mistakenly closed all cued up to sell those 10,000 shares of stock or your long political post on your uncle's Facebook page on a one-way trip to the undiscovere'd country in those browsers, either." No guarantees on the stock trading.
Maybe it's the alcohol... But I really have no idea what the summary is talking about.
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
I'm not trying to jump on the "slashdot has gone down-hill" bandwagon, but ...
KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS ARE NOT NEWS.
- Nec Impar Pluribus, or so I'm told.
How is a combined keypress (Ctrl+Shift+T) that is supported by the major browsers worthy of a news article? Even with my low UID this is the lowest of the low I've seen on Slashdot...
Go home, timothy, you are drunk.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
Seriously? This functionality has existed as long as tabs have existed.
And even if the magic keystrokes are forgotten, they're just a Google away.
That said: There really should be an easily-identifiable way in Firefox to restore a closed tab without using a keyboard. Perhaps an entry next to "New Tab" under the now-hidden-by-default file menu would suffice.
Kid-proof tablet..
You discovered a keyboard shortcut in your browser that may or may not work on any other browser in existence and has been in use by yours truly since the invention of tabs? Woohoo, you rock, now go help your mom connect to that YouTube video you posted...
Slashdot? News for nerds? Stuff that matters?
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The Opera web browser has had the ability to re-open closed tabs for years. There's even a menu so you can pick which page!
It was news five years ago. It's not news today.
Next on slashdot: Did you know you can read the paper while taking a shit?
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
it's a nice tip, but does it deserve a /. entry?
Are you fucking kidding me? THIS is news on /.? I expect 3 weeks stale, not 3 years.
It's just Command-Z for Undo (Close tab)
I have always simply right clicked on the toolbar and select"open closed tab". The shortcut has always been there to see, I could not bother to memorise it.
If you close a tab that you didn't mean to close, just hit Command-z and the tab will reopen. It was the last thing you did, so it makes sense that Command-z would undo that. This isn't exactly rocket science.
Yes, and (in Firefox, at least) you can re-open closed windows by using ctrl+shift+N. And you can reset page zoom with ctrl+0. Or open the Downloads window by pressing ctrl+J. Or F11 to full screen. Or press Alt to go through the menu bar if you don't have it and see all these wonderful functions your program has but you were too ignorant to know about.
Is this really a "News for Nerds" article? Shouldn't you already know this? What's next, an article that informs us that ctrl+Y is a "redo" button if you've undone too much?
Seriously, I could not think of a more mundane thing to have a submission about.
And for the record, with firefox + vimperator, "u" is the keyboard shortcut to reopen a tab. Much simpler.
There is - in fact I never use the keyboard shortcut: History menu, Recently Closed Tabs, choose the one you want back from the submenu. Of course you actually have to make the menu bar visible to find it, but doesn't everyone do that anyway?
I TRIED THIS BUT SOMETHING WENT WRONG.
(Anyone else miss having CTRL next to 'a' ? Damn you Bill Gates! Nice tip, though.)
OK, I can see this becoming a filler article on some crappy "tech" website (coughcoughgizmodocough). But Slashdot? Seriously?
And it's not even written for our audience. I could see a "top ten keyboard shortcuts users don't know (but should)" or a "comparison of undo buttons between every program" (I can never remember the Emacs one... it's ctrl-x u, right?). But a "dude, check out this awesome keyboard shortcut I just found" for something I've been using at least daily for years?
Normally I don't say this, but maybe Slashdot really is starting to go downhill...
ctl-shift-t has been a staple of all tabbed browsers since quite literally they came out. While this IS "stuff that matters", it's hardly news for many nerds
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you
when part of the internet goes on a lil unexpected break.
all that's left to post is crud like this.
Where's the options to tag this story as shit?
It should have been used on the computer before submitting this article.
Disappointing,
myke
Mimetics Inc. Twitter
This gibberish gave me a fucking headache. Enough said.
in the menus. Hey, does pressing Windows + X blow your mind too? (on a laptop at least).
Mostly random stuff.
OMG I just found a super secret undo command.
First you have to unlock secret undo commands. This is done by visiting your favorite porn site and pressing the left shift key five (5) times.
Once unlocked press Ctrl + 'W' and go wash your hands.
Not people who are surprised that a keyboard combo that restores a closed tab is the Greatest Ever.
Kid-proof tablet..
bitch.
A slashdot article about resurrecting a tab? Are you fucking serious?
To do something right, you often have to roll up your sleeves and get busy.
The greatest shortcut is Alt-F4. Shutting down Windows for over two decades.
Most annoying is Ctrl Alt Del
Nope. My Macbook Pro just clicks at me pointlessly with this "miracle" shortcut. Doesn't work with Safari.
Whoever approved this or submitted it should have posting/approving privileges revoked. T\he beginning, middle, and end of the summary make very little sense and provide barely any value. The new learned shortcut is new, but one could have added that this feature will not work for Chrome running Incognito mode (as other bloggers have pointed out).
Wow with the backspace key I can remove my mistakes without having to put whiteout all over my monitor!
Firefox Menu -> History -> Recently Closed Tabs not "without a keyboard" enough for you? :-)
Except for failing on the "Easily identified part," yeah, that's fine.
Kid-proof tablet..
Once again, mobile safari proves how badly it sucks. At least it can finally handle animated gifs larger than 2MB. How do I reopen a recently closed tab in mobile safari? How do I prevent an auto-opened 9th tab from randomly erasing a current tab due to the 8 tab limit? 8 is not always enough contrary to sitcom titles.
But apparently any idiot with a keyboard can get on the front page.
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
I'm gonna hit the little red cross now, and NOT shift+ctrl+t it back.
The Cloud - because you don't care if your apps and data are up in the air.
Really, please stop.
Maybe we need a grease monkey script to block is articles.
If you want a 2nd browser window, start a 2nd browser process.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
First, this is not something new. It has existed for some time and I've been using it for quite a while. Second, what the hell is this doing on the front page of /. ??
I think it is time I finally stop coming here.. I miss the days when /. was relevant
Y'all niggas just got trolled. Epically.
If we got articles like this every time some very slow mind discovered some very basic functionality in some very basic software, ./ would be a very sad place indeed. Too bad this was posted.
Which will automatically download all the porn from the Internet over a period of a few short hours.
sudo rm -rf /
What the fuck is a "Melia Robinson", who annointed her the second coming of Christ??? "Extra, extra, read all about it! Soccer mom realizes that applications have keyboard shortcuts, declares them "The.Next.Big.Thing".
... because only 1.1 million other people already know this.
FUCKING SERIOUSLY?!?!?!??!1111
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
The one line summary of this article is: Command-Shift-T (or Ctrl-Shift-T) = Reopen Closed Tab (in some browsers)
Seriously?
I had no idea this was available (or, as they say nowadays, a "thing") so I'm ecstatic to find it out.
I think this was an awesome post. I had need for it just today. Had a bunch of tabs open, accidentally closed one, didn't know which I closed...so had to do Ctrl+H for history then open them all again and close duplicates. Pain in the arse. Simple solution. Thanks.
I cannot count the number of times that I have been filling out a form on a web page and hit the backspace to edit only to discover that I had lost focus on the form and had the tab slammed shut and all information on the form lost. This is a problem on EVERY version on EVERY browser that I have ever used. Unfortunately this little shortcut does not fix that issue. I don't find backspace to be a useful navigation tool. I want to be able to turn it off or at least have a way to recover the information.
You can just click the big orange firefox button to access the menu even without the bar....
Well, it was news to me, and something I've been wishing for, for a long time, and didn't know how to do. So, I appreciate it.
There is. Right click on any tab->Undo Close Tab. It's similar in Chrome.
Press Alt and your previously hidden menu bar magically appears as if out of thin air!
You can then press any of the underlined letters to open the relevant menu, or simply navigate them with your arrow keys.
Be careful though, I've just filed a patent on a method to navigate previously hidden keyboard actuated menus. I don't want to have to sue you.
Too bad http://goatse.cx doesn't show that disgusting image. That is still more insightful than this story.
Glossing over the fact that this is a ridiculous article, I still want to ask if anybody knows how to undo closing a tab on Android Chrome. The close button is very close to the new tab button on the Nexus 7...
At least on my Mac, Command-Shift-T hides and shows the tab bar when there's only one tab. It doesn't restore closed tabs in Safari.
I've got an extension installed that does it; it's Command-Z.
You know what I just discovered? If you press ctrl [PLUS] T then it takes you away form this page and to a new tab. Then you can get BACK to this page by pressing ctrl [PLUS] W. Go on, try it! I dare you!
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from the wish-I'd-know(n)-this-15-years-ago dept.
where is my internet?
Where is my internet??
WHERE IS MY INTERNET???
Use liberally whenever you're about to post some stupid-ass babbling to Slashdot.
Let's change the topic slightly to most awesome keboard shortcuts ever, my nomination was installed at the MIT AI Lab in the Tech Square building.
Emacs Meta-Ctrl-e called the elevator to the 8th floor...
I may have some details wrong, but there was a wire run from the lab out to the elevator control--saved a lot of time, the elevators were very slow. Didn't RTFM come from MIT too?
I've known this for years. Why is this on /.?
I guess since we're at it, pressing [control]+[shift]+[escape] will open the task manager on many Windows machines.
Recently Closed Tabs not "without a keyboard" enough for you?
Hold on... I think we've hit on something patentable.
I didn't know about this! I've been the IT career for most of my career life!
I tried it today and it blew my mind! I first went around showing all my co-workers this. They were super amazed and thought I was extra smart!
They told my manager how incredibly smart I am and I gained +1 to salary! Thank you Slashdot!
Now all the cute blondes at work worship me to! Knowing this has made me more attractive and successful, and gets me laid!
Please post more articles like this, a few more and I will be the CEO of a major corporation by being the super office hero guy.
okay. this is about par for the course for Slashdot these days, I guess.
'dd' is a useful command which can be used to concetenate files, back up disks, and even copy data? The possibilities are limitless!
You can use SATA disks with SAS backplanes and HBAs, but you may not plug SAS disks into SATA equipment.
In Skyrim, it's possible to earn high-end daedric armor quite early in the game by grinding your conjuration skill and doing a mage guild quest to power up the atronach forge below the Winterhold's college.
And perhaps most important of all, you need to know that kcachegrind can be used to help you easily parse the output of valgrind's cachegrind tool when searching for bottlenecks in your code.
I honestly didn't know this. I didn't need to know it, because I guess I'm not klutzy enough to close tabs by accident enough. If I were, I guess I would have gone looking for it, or complained about it and been told by somebody. I'm kinda lazy about looking for keyboard shortcuts. I know other people just love 'em and it's the first thing they look for... but I'm fine with just using the mouse for a lot of things. I can see how others might find tab restoration useful though, and I can kind of understand why you're giving timothy shit for making a whole article out of it... and gushing about it as if it were virginity restoration or something.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
There is a way. History >> recently closed tabs.
The Worst Slashdot Article Ever
the newly-discovere'd low in slashdot front page headlines
Go home, timothy, you are drunk.
I really hope something other than being drunk or completely tasteless will be an explanation for this story. A keyboard shortcut made news on slashdot...Hope they cracked his /. account, even that would be better.
WTF who ever knew about Ctrl-Z!!?
It's like, a sort of Ctrl-Z for the dcument.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
But seriously, why isn't it mentioned in the menues or when right clicking on a tab in Firefox?
Ctrl+Shift+N will reopen closed windows.
I was born knowing every keyboard shortcut ever in use, so I can rationalize being a snarky dick about this.
Now that is an awesome keyboard shortcut.
Mods, please improve the rating of parent AC's brilliance.
Kid-proof tablet..
This was just fine humour guys, not timothy with a six pack. He's just praising both Ryan Vogt's and @meliarobin's high IQ.
Really unfortunate to do on a NEWS site.
If you mean the rtfm command, it was part of the Andrew system; it was implemented first at CMU.
If you mean RTFM as an acronym, the earliest known citation comes from the LINPACK manual in 1979, but oral tradition has it originating in the US Air Force in the 40s or 50s.
MIT's "rtfm" ftp server (which hosts USENET FAQs) came later.
rage, rage against the dying of the light
Well it blew my mind for 15 seconds. But then I remembered I just use Chrome's History menu, last time was yesterday I think.
Here is another amazing trick: you can use Ctl-T to open a new tab!
Who knew?
What sort of retarded bullshit is this? A slashdot article for a single keyboard shortcut which most readers of this site should know already? Do the fucktards who upvoted this like the language in which it's described?
It even has more than one closed tab! Do you not use Firefox?
Opera browser has a small arrow pointing down to the far right of the address bar, if you click on that all of the sites you've been to that session will show,
you can then select one you've closed earlier. Close Opera and they are all gone, a temp history of your current browsing and yes it's very helpful.
- Ctrl [plus] Shift [plus] T works as well. (Yep, Windows and Mint).
I would say the pause/break key is the best as well as a virtually unknown shortcut. it allows you to stop a post from scrolling during boot up.
You know how it is, your looking for info on your system and the bios post flashes by way to fast to read.
You press the Pause/break key and the post will stop, Enter key to continue. I've found many BIOS numbers this way; timing is everything.
(Intel chips at least).
Set about:config?filter=browser.backspace_action to 2
Works in Opera 17, without any extensions
I was once a virgin too.
I too remember my first time. It went something like this:
1. I'm in!
2. I'm not a virgin anymore!
3. Omfg. This feels AMAZING!
Then I hit CTRL-SHIFT-T and I went back to being a nobody.
I used the so called shortcut and it opened https://www.abine.com/abine-products-post-install/ which I have never installed or been to that website. Did it pull it out of thin air? Some sort of product placement? Space robots controlling my computer? Website Noscript blocked? I WILL NEVER KNOW.
"Melia Robinson's trick [described for Chrome] works in Firefox and Internet Explorer, too"
I think I'll make a feature request for the next Firefox, to rename the Recently Closed Tabs menu to Melia Robinson's Trick Parlor.
Some people are just idiots. And the Sun is shining again today.
I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I can think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.
I was honestly expecting it to say EVARZ instead of Ever. It would have fit the summary/story a lot more appropriately.
Netcraft has confirmed: Slashdot is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Slashdot community when IDC confirmed that Slashdot article relevance has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all stories. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Slashdot has lost more article relevance, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Slashdot is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent "Computer User cursory glance at the history tool bar test."
You don't need to be the Amazing Kreskin to predict Slashdot's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Slashdot faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Slashdot because Slashdot is dying. Things are looking very bad for Slashdot. As many of us are already aware, Slashdot continues to lose article relevance. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Timothy is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its credibility. The sudden and unpleasant departure of "News for Nerds" and "Stuff that Matters" only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Slashdot is dying.
All major surveys show that Slashdot has steadily declined in article relevance. Slashdot is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Slashdot is to survive at all it will be among dilettante dabblers that read the "For Dummies" books. Slashdot continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Slashdot is dead.
That crippling bombshell sent Slashdot fans into a tailspin of mourning and denial. However, bad news poured in like a river of water.
Firefox has a IMO more useful shortcut: Middle click with the mouse over the area right next to the rightmost tab will open the last closed tab.
Since I close tabs using the mouse I find it more convenient than reaching for the keyboard.
You can also close tabs with middle click, which is how I discovered the feature.
Whoever let this on /. should be shot, assuming articles are moderated.
OP is getting destroyed. Poor guy.
Words escape me reading this article. This must be the worst article i've ever seen on any tech site of any caliber. Wow!
If you open a browser at the beginning of the day and don't close it until the end, you're going to run into cases when you wish you didn't close out a particular tab. ctrl-shit-t undo's closing a tab like ctrl-z undos. Pretty cool.
We must create the Ig Slashdot Prize.
Ctrl-A, Ctrl-X this post
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I can bring back closed tabs from the dead in Opera 9.25
Paper? Why you young whippersnappers have it so easy.
We had to use corncobs. Use a couple of the red ones to get the worst, and then use a white one to see if it was clean yet.
And then they ruined everything by coming out with that commie propaganda called the Sears Catalog!
Uh... yes?
I've been using this daily for so long I don't remember when it was added to Firefox.
But, who are you and what did you do to slashdot, the news for nerds site. You know, people who know how to use Google. People who don't look a piece of software and think the main menu is all there is to it. People who *gasp* might think about looking up keyboard shortcuts to a program they use every day just because.
And most importantly: Are we going to run individual articles for one keyboard shortcut from now on? Seriously, at least do what every other online magazine does when it doesn't have a good story for the day and lump 10 or so of them together into an article.
I think this is a personal low-point in the history of /.
Assorted stuff I do sometimes: Lemuria.org
It's just a tribute
If you mean the rtfm command, it was part of the Andrew system; it was implemented first at CMU.
If you mean RTFM as an acronym, the earliest known citation comes from the LINPACK manual in 1979, but oral tradition has it originating in the US Air Force in the 40s or 50s.
MIT's "rtfm" ftp server (which hosts USENET FAQs) came later.
Thanks for the history, I was too lazy to check back. (I'm the AC that posted about the elevator call from emacs).
What is even more annoying is when the webserver serves up an error page after you have just written a very long comment (or similar) hit "post". My solution (in Linux) is to simply dump /dev/mem to /tmp/memorydump and then search this file for keywords present in the recently written form. While this is not a perfect solution, it has certainly saved me a lot of extra work in a few situations. (Nowadays I mostly write longer entries in emacs and cut&paste everything into the form to avoid this kind of issues.)
/dev/mem in most situations.)
If you are going to try this out, note that you'll need to do this immediately, before the memory has been overwritten by another process. (And you obviously need to be root to be able to access
Here's a better way: don't have close buttons on tabs. They're freaking annoying. If I'm in SeaMonkey or Firefox I disable all tab close buttons and use ctrl-F4 or middle-click to close a tab.
Chrome's interface is shitty and one of the shittier things about it is having a close button on every tab which makes me close them accidentally sometimes. Good job I don't use it as my main browser.
== Jez ==
Do you miss Firefox? Try Pale Moon.
before we all Ctrl+Shift+Z and Ctrl+Y our decision to decide that if /. decided this is newsworthy, it can't be trusted to make any sound decision on newsworthiness from now on, and we should all just Ctrl+W it before it Ctrl+Rs and taxes our patience once'a too many.
Ah, if we could but Ctrl+S the old /. (but there's naught in my Ctrl+Shift+Y or Ctrl+J), or had the wit to Ctrl+Q before it fell.
An article about ... a keyboard shortcut. Seriously? I'm definitely going to Alt+B to remove something, and I'll never Ctrl+D you again, slashdot!
Yeah f that I use Strokes Plus "it's free and supports LUA scripting!" for my shortcuts and gestures on everything from Firefox, Chrome, Photoshop, VLC, all the way to Notepad++. I use scripts on them to base the length of the shortcut to add multiple shortcuts with the same stroke. A example would be down short to close 1 tab down med to close all but my current and down long to completely close the browser. A down too short would be ignored and a fast timeout of .2 seconds if not moved.
Because of that my right click is pretty much a shortcut to everything including some customized AutoHotkey scripts to speed up task that I yet don't know how to make with LUA. Mostly Photoshop based region scripts to change how the mouse works when over certain areas.
That is my idea of the best shortcut ever, well for me at least. :P
before we all Ctrl+Shift+Z and Ctrl+Y our decision to decide that if /. decided this is newsworthy, it can't be trusted to make any sound decision on newsworthiness from now on, and we should all just Ctrl+W it before it Ctrl+Rs and taxes our patience once'a too many.
Ah, if we could but Ctrl+S the old /. (but there's naught in my Ctrl+Shift+Y or Ctrl+J), or had the wit to Ctrl+Q before it fell.
An article about ... a keyboard shortcut. Seriously? I'm definitely going to Alt+B to remove something, and I'll never Ctrl+D you again, slashdot!
It sucks that it doesn't work when trying to close pop-ups from pr0n-sites and I accidentally close the tab I want to see.
The Greatest Keyboard Shortcut Ever
Are you serious? This passes the Slashdot submission test?
Right, everybody, submit a story about your favourite keyboard shortcut. Go! I'll take Win+D.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
"a sort of Ctrl-Z for the entire Internet"
So it's like CTRL+Z then? At least in Opera and Safari CTRL+Z reopens closed tabs.
Not really .... Didn't get my delivery of "male enhancement" this week.:(
I may be new here (my UID is very high) but this post makes me sad.
First, you can use it to weed out noobs in videogames that ask for cheats. "ALT + F4 for cheat menu" and often a bunch of them will "quit the game" Also, people who think you need a mouse to close a window won't realize you weren't working on what you said you were working on, and they won't get you just closed the hentai porn containing window. Only a few times have I needed to get a tab back. Many times I want to close a program fast. My vote is ALT + F4
Education time. When browsing the submissions list in Slashdot, if you click the - button to vote down an article, it gives you optional reasons.
One of those reasons is "slow news day". Learn it. Live it. Love it.
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
The greatest keyboard shortcut ever is:
control-F1 : minimize Ribbon.
Not merely convenient, but prevents a host of mental health disorders!
Hugh Pickens DOT Com daily's not-so-interesting-for-nerds article.
In Safari, Command Shift T, simply toggles the displayed tabs or does nothing.
- Zav - Imagine a Beowulf cluster of insensitive clods...
Also mouse gestures.
This will be news when I can esc-y till I get the tab I wanted.
This is pretty obvious. Will we see another post tomorrow about the magical alt+f4 shortcut to quickly close windows? How about the super-secret ctrl+alt+delete shotcut that allows you to get to a hidden menu where you can log off, lock the computer, or even open the task manager!
I know that people often complain about slashdot going downhill, but this time I think it really has.
-1 disagree is not a modifier for a reason. -1 troll, flaimbait, redundant, overrated are NOT acceptable substitutes.
Alt-F4 works even better!
Is this a joke article? What in the world is all the fuss about?
Is this a joke? Obvious keyboard shortcuts is news? Is timothy senile?
Well if you don't like the article then just CTRL-W right now, mkay?
Oh, then hit Shift-Ctrl-T and come back and complain some more.
Guys, guys! Did you know if you press the "i" key in vi, it goes into something called the "--- INSERT MODE ---"? It lets me insert letters, words, sentences, whole paragraphs even(!) at the cursor's position! It's awesome!
What else has Bill Joy kept from us?
WOW!! This is lifechangingingly awesome!!! Thank you Slashdot!!!!!
PS: That was sarcarsm.
Who didn't know that?
For Macs: Command [plus] shift [plus] t reopens the last tab. For PCs: Ctrl [plus] Shift [plus] T
Macs are fucking PCs too, who the fuck started this trend of associating PCs (Personal Computers) with windows? What about fucking Linux? Why the fuck are you associating the operating system with the hardware? And why the fuck are you not calling Macs PCs? Are they not fucking personal computers? Are Macs so goddamn special that they have their own fucking category in the Personal Computer line? Fuck whoever started this bullshit ass trend, i hope you're rotting in hell right (Yes, im talking to you steve jobs) rot in hell you piece of shit.
What's the apostrophe in aid of, you fucktard?
Didn't they teach you that it means "look out, here comes an s" not "darn, you missed an e"?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Does not work in Firefox 11.0
Sort of a ctrl-z for the internet... For Macs cmd-shift-t...
How about cmd-z. Yes, seriously. Close a tab, and the normal every day keyboard shortcut for undo, well, you know, undoes it.
The keyboard shortcut is spelt out in full right there in the "Recently Closed Tabs" submenu
That keyboard shortcut is displayed two submenus deep. To get to it, one would have to click the Firefox menu and then do two non-obvious things.
The first non-obvious step is to know that submenus can be opened through hovering. In an application using a more or less standard menu bar, clicking the title of a submenu does nothing. Some users traverse submenus by clicking, especially users brought up on touch-controlled mobile devices that don't even have a hover action or people using desktop applications on a touch screen laptop or all-in-one desktop PC. But in Firefox, clicking the title of a submenu of the top-level Firefox menu opens that submenu's primary item.
The second non-obvious step is to know that Ctrl+Shift+T is inside Recently Closed Tabs, and Recently Closed Tabs is inside History. Finding something buried in a second menu is something one does when exploring an application in depth, not when in a hurry to complete a particular task. A lot of users never explore their web browsers in depth because they are effectively in a hurry every time they're using the web: they just want to get back to the web site or web application that they were using. Besides, I don't know if Recently Closed Tabs even shows an option whose shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+T if no tabs have been closed this session.
What I sometimes do is write all my replies to comments to a particular Slashdot story in an external text editor (such as Notepad++, Leafpad, or whatever), along with the URL of the comment to which each comment is a reply. Then once I've finished looking over them, I come back and preview each comment one more time before posting it. Having "slept" on each comment for a few minutes lets me look at each comment in a fresh frame of mind. This helps me find errors and awkward phrasings that I wouldn't have found had I been posting in the heat of the moment. It also helps me when I'm reading Slashdot on a 10" laptop on the bus, as I can finish the job once I get to a Wi-Fi network at my destination.
lol this is pathetic.
...of how bad Slashdot has gotten since Dice took over!
This makes me a little less proud of the few times I've gotten submissions published.
That's it, I'm out of here. Talking poo is where I draw the line!
Install the PrefBar extension in Firefox or SeaMonkey. Enable the Restore Tab button.
By the way, accidentally closing a tab in SeaMonkey should be rare since the X to close is at the far right of the tab bar, not on the tab. Putting the X on the tab itself has proven dangerous because it is then too easy to close a tab when trying to select the adjacent tab on the right.
Oh, settle down.
This article was posted in anticipation that many of you were having a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day today. It was offered up like a sacrificial muffin so that you could have something, (anything) to feel superior to.
Don't you feel better? Think of it! A half million people all suddenly feeling caustic satisfaction in their own evolutionary status. That can only do good things for the world. Confidence breeds productivity, after all!
Of course, little ol' me didn't know about this shortcut, so I thought, "Hm. That's handy."
But then I have self esteem even on a slow news day.
Have gnu, will travel.
I am an experienced user and utilize a lot of keyboard shortcuts but I was unaware of CTRL-SHIFT-T in FF. In fact, 5 minutes ago I was wishing I had that support for a tab I accidentally closed and would have trouble finding again (too lazy for history search).
Therefore, this was the most useful ./ post I've read in months - certainly the one with the most immediate practical impact. So neeeeah to the naysayers.
Did the submitter never notice History -> Recently Closed Tabs in Firefox for 15 years? It says "CTRL+SHIFT+T" right next to it. Dude.
and, dammit, my browser closed. And, no, Ctrl-Shift-T did not bring it back.
...how is it possible for someone to intentionally come to /. and -not- know about this function of modern browsers?
Please, please tell me this is a subtly satirical commentary on the current state of popular technology writing. I'm begging you.
You can do this with Alt-F4 too...
Really??? This is the type of horrid shit that makes it to slashdot now?
The article talks about the commonly found shortcut to recall a closed tab. For most Windows systems, it's Ctrl+Shift+T.
If the snarky co-dupe-commenters keep saying they using this multiple times every day...
Doesn't that point to a problem with using Tabs for browsing?
Or are they just uber-klutzes?
the greatest keyboard shortcut ever is:
CTRL-ALT-DownArrow
:)
You want the equivalent of Ctrl-Z for the internet?
Well, Ctrl-Z suspends the execution of a process, so probably the closest equivalent for something remote would be Ctrl-S. Works on any sane terminal since the 70s or so.
Oh, and I don't know what they mean about using the shift key. Last time I checked ASCII only contained 26 control codes...
is this crap. While I suppose this technically is "for nerds", it most certainly is not "news", both in the sense of being something that everyone probably already knew, and in the sense of literally not fitting the definition of news at all. So why the crap is it here?
...didn't work in either Mozilla or IE.
Ferret
Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc
I don't know about being "born" able to do so, but hopefully most people around here can read the shortcut that's listed beside a menu item.
History... Recently Closed Tabs...
Yup, the last one has a CTRL+SHIFT+T shortcut listed beside it.
Press Alt and your previously hidden menu bar magically appears as if out of thin air!
I just tried that in Firefox 23 in Xubuntu. The Alt key by itself doesn't make a menu appear.
But then the user has to somehow be aware that 1. History is itself a menu, not just an item; 2. one can hover over the strange submenu/item hybrid that exists only in Firefox to open the submenu; and 3. Recently Closed Tabs is within the History submenu. With the growing sales of touch laptops, I imagine that a lot of users aren't going to be used to hovering.
When the Journal system debutted here it sort of provided that, but besides technolust there was very little eyeball traffic.
To get more eyeballs on my journal, I tend to advertise journal entries in my signature while they're active.
Stuff like reddit comes to mind, but it's too mainstream and joke-ish. Others have stringent rules where everything must be on topic
The stringent rules are all that those forums have to keep them from becoming "too mainstream and joke-ish".
It's not like IRC where real-time replies are essential. It takes me about 45 minutes to get from one hotspot to the next, after which point I pump out one queued comment every two minutes. If an hour's wait is too long, perhaps someone will have already said it better than I. Besides, I have to read the whole discussion anyway so as not to be marked Redundant. And sometimes I keep getting replies a day later if I'm replying to someone who checks his Slashdot messages.
Alt-tab is far more powerful.
I still cringe at how many of my family (100%) cannot grasp the concept of quickly switching between multiple users.
I would understand if this article was trying to be snarky, but it's just misinformation.
Ctrl+Shift+Delete (clears your history so you can't use Ctrl+Shift+T to bring back tabs)
In other news, Internet browser users sometimes actually know how to use their browser. Story at 11.
Unity? Screw that: XFCE. Slashdot Beta? Screw that: SoylentNews. Australis? Screw that: Pale Moon. UX developers DIAF
which has contextual ctrl-z, so it either undos what you type in a text area or brings back up the last closed tab (and has a convenient trashcan easily accessible for people who prefer to use the mouse) ... for those not getting it, I am talking about Opera pre 15.
I'm not surprised we've an article about this and a majority of Chrome/Firefox aren't aware of that. I hope Slashdot will accept my article about the technique of suppressed farts and silent piss + include that in the summary newletters.
This is a new low.
SWM seeks new sig for a brief fling
Or, you could choose the browser menu selection History/RecentlyStoredTabs/Restore. What am I missing here??
So where's my Slashdot byline?
Not only Lame, but I tried it on my Mac and it doesn't work. Command-Z did however.
Sure enough, the cow costume was hanging up next to the superhero outfit and sailors uniform. (S,Spud)
Old slashdot would have used this opportunity to share useful shortcuts, not complain about the original post.
Why is this on slashdot? Any self respecting geek knew this years ago when the feature was first introduced.