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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. Re:Huh? What? by m1ss1ontomars2k4 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I agree. Is this just a bad /. post, or literally the worst /. post ever?

  2. ... Keyboard shortcuts are news? by DavidClarkeHR · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm not trying to jump on the "slashdot has gone down-hill" bandwagon, but ...

    KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS ARE NOT NEWS.

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  3. How did this pass moderation? by Bringer128 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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...

    1. Re:How did this pass moderation? by c0d3g33k · · Score: 5, Insightful

      My UID is lower, and this is indeed the lowest of the low.

  4. Re:Huh? What? by asmkm22 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is one of the worst summaries ever. The topic is bad. The summary is bad. It's confusingly written, without any clear idea as to what point it's trying to convey.

    TLDR: CTRL+Shift+T restores tabs you accidentally closed.

  5. Re:Huh? What? by vidnet · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The summary should read "Several browsers let you press Ctrl-Shift-T to reopen a closed tab. That is all."

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

  6. Re:Huh? What? by Pieroxy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There should be a way to punish people for stupid posts so that they cannot post anymore. Whoever is behind this story however deserves a title to have come up with the stupidest, most ridiculous /. story ever that has been accepted and published.

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