How to get your tabs back when Chrome loses them

How to Recover your Chrome Tabs

On the whole, Chrome is very stable, but once in a blue moon when I come back online, all the tabs are gone. Or maybe a window crashes. I love my tabs. I’m a creature of habit. I like to see everything I *might* need open at one time.

Here’s the only thing I found that brought my tabs back to life.

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Viktor Frankenstein working in his lab, bringing SOMETHING back to life, from a German Wiki

 

Here is how to recover your whole session, via Bleeping World.com:

  1. Keep your Chrome browser open
  2.  (For PC Users): Use the key combo [Ctrl][Shift][T]. Hold down all three keys in the same order as shown [Ctrl][Shift][T].
  3.  (For Mac Users): Use the key combo [Cmd][Shift][T]. Hold down all three keys in the same order as shown [Cmd][Shift][T].
Save tabs in Chrome for next time

Just like Firefox, you can set up your browser to automatically restore all tabs from the last Chrome browsing session. See the blurry settings clip.

It doesn’t always work, which is why I wrote this post, but it’s  good. So if you haven’t already, here’s how to make Chrome remember your tabs (most of the time) for your next visit.

How to Save Tabs in Chrome for the Future

3 dots at top right> Settings> On Startup>Continue where you left off.

And if you lose your whole window, just right click in any available window, Reopen Closed Window.

There you go. Now you can “surf the net.” And visit all your favorite places again tomorrow.

Rant about Google

Have you ever noticed how useless the Google forums are about, well, everything? The questions always seem to be about 3 years old, and the admins there often don’t answer at all, answer partially, or sometimes don’t admit there’s even a problem! 🙂

Adsense is the WORST. But gmail is also bad. I could go on…but sometimes I wonder if Google makes directions so impossible just to keep you online longer. /paranoid. Because they’re not stupid, but they do seem malicious.

So even though it’s Chrome, and you might even be on a Chromebook (like me) don’t expect much help from Google. I had to look this all up, so you won’t have to.

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Donna Barstow

Donna Barstow

Syndicated cartoonist in the New Yorker, LA Times, Harvard Business Review, Slate, textbooks, papers. Columnist for 10 years in Psychology Today. Set painter in studio Art Depts. Member Scriptwriters Network, script analyst. Author, 2 hardcopy books, Barnes & Noble Calendar.

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