How to recover accidentally closed tabs
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I am wondering whether there is a possibility to undo an accidental click on Close other tabs in the context menu of a tab? I intended to click Close Tab but I was probably a pixel off when I clicked and I now find myself with 30+ tabs closed.
Since I had not saved this set of tabs to a session, the only tabs left in front of me at this moment are those that were pinned.
Do we have a command like "restore the previous session"? Maybe through History?
I tried Edit > Undo, to no avail.
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@voodoopriest Have you tried to retrieve your session and/or your closed tabs from the trashcan in the tab bar or from the window panel?
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@voodoopriest
Ctrl+Shift+Tor bin icon in tab bar or window panel (you have to try how to reopen more tabs from there, maybe select more items and thenEnter, but it's the fastest solution IMO). -
You will find every tab you had opened in history unless you delete your history.
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Many thanks to all. The solution is indeed in the trashcan in the window panel, by selecting all windows (with the secondary mouse button!! the primary button just reopens the one selected). This blessed trashcan has a Reopen entry that reopens all selected tabs. All is well
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Or if you want to immediately open the last tab closed, just middle-click on the trash can! I use the middle-click function all of the time.
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Before the Window panel ever existed this was a pain. Chrome already had an option to open window of tabs as the recent items in history dropdown menu, but Vivaldi definitely missed that one. If you like extensions I started using "Session Buddy" extension to save my sessions and - it remebers past, unsaved sessions, even on browser close. This helped me million times to quickly restore accidentally closed tabs. Restoring tabs from just the history wasn't a great idea, never as I store tabs in multiple windows, categorized and can leave them opened there for weeks.
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This would be a lot more helpful if there was a trashcan. I do not see one
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@TeddyBeary Thank you incredibly much.Session Buddy just saved my ass. I do extended research leaving tabs open for months at a time. Ashamed to say I only create saved sessions when I open another window to do some side research and then save that window session for later. Anyway, I double clicked somewhere I shouldn't have (not sure where) and Vivaldi closed my main window while opening a new window with no controls (menus, control bar etc.) showing and no way to bring back my main window. Vivaldi 'History' is almost useless as there is no way to filter or search it and some of the tabs that disappeared hadn't been clicked on in months. I tried everything and nothing worked. Still can't find out where Vivaldi stores the current session (WHY NOT?). Finally, in the community forum I found your post. I thought it would be a good extension to have fore the future but was still resigned to hours of work to restore my main window. Amazingly, when I started Session Buddy it went out and found all 92 tabs that Vivaldi had disappeared. YaaaY!!!
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@hlehyaric Thank you! You just saved me and my 124 accidentally closed tabs! I usually have multiple browser windows open with multiple tabs in each one. Accidentally closing one of the windows is always a pain in the butt.
When I need to close the browser, for an update or a reboot, I use the Merge Windwos extension to merge all the tabs to one window, before closing it.
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@thorirmar said in How to recover accidentally closed tabs:
Accidentally closing one of the windows is always a pain in the butt.
That window should be in the trash can. The 25 items limit is last 25 *items* that were closed.
This morning I closed two windows in a row, one with 22 tabs the other with 7 tabs. Then I closed a tab and realized that I was in a window I had intended to close. I went to the deleted items trash can and the two windows were 2nd & 3rd on the list, with a bunch of tabs after them.
As for autosaving my session, I prefer to use the native feature instead of installing an extension, which requires extending my trust to another third-party and also makes my browser fingerprint more unique -- both are privacy/security risks that I find unnecessary with Vivaldi.
The Autosave Sessions Mod will save your session every X minutes and keep the Y most recent autosaved sessions. I use 20 minutes and 10 sessions which means I have my current state from at most 19 minutes ago and can restore a state going back at least 3 hours.
This next extension isn't directly related recoveringv lost tabs, but works so well with the previous extension I have to mention them together. It's like playing We Will Rock You and We Are the Champions together -- one just belongs with the other.
The Advanced Panels Mod (with Sessions Panel) has really made sessions a useful feature for me. I use the sessions panel to save, manage, and open my sessions. The 2 mods combined maken sessions a robust feature that easily integrates into my workflow.
Prior to installing the sessions panel, I only used sessions as a quick save of state before rebooting, or when I was closing Vivaldi to make resources available to a hungry task. Now I frequently save sessions when I've got a bunch of tabs related to some project or task that I am not currently doing. This makes that collection of tabs available to easily open together in the future, but I'm not cluttering my bookmarks library with a ton of pages that I don't intend to save longterm, or at all really.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
BoneTone
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Right-clicking the trash can used to work. But today it doesn't -- it shows the same list as left-click. So now I've lost around 40 tabs because I clicked the wrong x. Great.
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@oxoxo see my post right above yours to avoid losing any tabs in the future.
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