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The Greatest Keyboard Shortcut Ever

Posted by timothy on from the wish-I'd-known-this-15-years-ago dept.

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.

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  1. You've Got to be Kidding Me by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 5, Informative

    Go home, timothy, you are drunk.

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  2. Re:... Keyboard shortcuts are news? by Samantha+Wright · · Score: 4, Informative

    Wait till they discover Ctrl-Shift-N, and gain the power to recover whole windows!

    Also, minus 10,000 points to the original author and those who quoted him without (sic) for writing "undiscovere'd." Seriously, what the fuck do you think that apostrophe is doing? Get rid of that last E!

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  3. This gibberish gave me a fucking headache. by Type44Q · · Score: 5, Informative

    This gibberish gave me a fucking headache. Enough said.

  4. Re:Huh? What? by frozentier · · Score: 4, Informative

    Why this is deserving of an article I don't know.

    It's not. I've been doing that with Chrome since it first came out.

  5. Re:seriously?!!? by MattskEE · · Score: 4, Informative

    The paper that I have next to my toilet doesn't have anything written on it...

  6. Re:Doesn't fix the real problem. by silver · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

    To solve that problem, you need the Lazarus Form Recovery addon
    http://getlazarus.com/download

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  7. Re:Huh? What? by gigaherz · · Score: 4, Informative

    HISTORY -> RECENTLY CLOSED TABS

    If you don't show the menubar, I'm sure it's also there in the "one" button.