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@Pesala Often times, I know that I want to open the second or third last closed tab, e.g. when I closed a few times successively. On Firefox, I press the shortcut for History -> Recently Closed Tabs, and then the number 2 or 3 or 4, without needing to examine the menu. Indeed, on Vivaldi first letters work as access keys, but it has a few disadvantages compared to numbers like in Firefox:
I need to look at the menu, find the 2nd or 3rd or 4th line, read the first letter and then move my finger to that key; on Firefox, I already know the shortcut, my finger immediately reaches there automatically after the Recently Closed Tabs shortcut.
It is not consistent: after finding pressing the key corresponding to the first letter, I may or may not need to press the enter key, depending on whether more than one items start with the same letter, or I may or may not need to press the letter again, so one more thing for me to watch for and react accordingly, unlike Firefox.
Like you said, C clears the list; I cleared the recently closed tabs many times because the first letter of the item was C so I just pressed it without thinking. So I not only fail to reopen the tab I want, but lose the list permanently. It is hard to remember to press the first letter, except when it is C.
The first letter may not be on my keyboard or may not even be a letter
For these reasons I have taken up navigating with arrow keys; it is consistent and always works in the same way without extra cognitive load. It is just a bit more time consuming to press down arrow three times and then Enter, instead of just pressing 3.
I imagine someone at Vivaldi is aware of these disadvantages, because they added numbers to the Window menu in the snapshot I linked, instead of having access keys be the first letters. Closed Tabs menu is almost identical, so I was hoping they were going to add it to there as well in the next snapshot, for consistency if nothing else, but unfortunately it still has not happened.
(Indeed, numbers would not help after 10th item, but it is relatively rare for me to need those, and at that point I would need to examine the list to find what I want anyway.)
