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title: "How to restore tabs on Chrome"
description: "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 tabs on Chrome

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.

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](https://zapier.com/blog/how-to-group-tabs-in-chrome) 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.

## How to restore Chrome tabs

To restore a Chrome tab:

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**.

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…_)

**Related reading:**

- [Brave browser review: Should you switch?](https://zapier.com/blog/brave-browser-review/)
- [Block all website notifications on Chrome with these settings and extensions](https://zapier.com/blog/block-notifications-chrome/)
- [How to add custom search engines to Chrome](https://zapier.com/blog/add-search-engine-to-chrome/)