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by dgrealy 3451 days ago
One thing that bites me occasionally with the current browsers is when I'm closing a lot of tabs with cmd-w but go too far and accidentally close the last one and loose the window. Windows close with cmd shift w so this behavior makes sense to me.

I like your attention to those shortcuts though I think we have similar standards:)
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makecheck 3451 days ago
In a few apps on the Mac I have made good use of the Keyboard Shortcuts part of System Preferences to prevent this.

If destructive behavior is a bit too "easy" in an app, I remap the command to something complex. I think my Quit in Firefox for instance is now command-shift-control-Q or something.

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ryanSrich 3451 days ago
Command shift T will bring back a window that has been closed (at least of Mac, I'm sure there's some macro on Windows).
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soylentcola 3450 days ago
It's CTRL-SHIFT-T on Windows but same idea.
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ek750 3451 days ago
The three browsers I use have command shortcuts that undo the accidental window closures.

Though I have to wonder how much resources are taken by the undo feature.

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sleepychu 3451 days ago
> accidental window closures

Really? Not just tabs. The danger is you have 5 tabs open, you only want one of them but you accidentally close all of them, now you've lost the window with the tab you wanted.

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matt_kantor 3451 days ago
I'm not ek750, but this is true for both of the browsers I use regularly. In Chrome on OS X, Cmd+Shift+T reopens the last-closed tab, whether it was in a different/closed window or the one that is currently focused. In Firefox on Linux, Ctrl+Shift+T restores the last-closed tab in the currently focused window, and Ctrl+Shift+N restores the last-closed window.

I have both of these browsers configured to save my sessions and start from where I left off when I quit the application entirely. Both of them persist my closed tab/window history between sessions as well, so I can for example close my way out of 15 tabs across 2 windows, then reboot my laptop, then when I start my browser it will reopen whatever tabs/windows I didn't explicitly close and if I want to restore the ones I closed before the reboot I can use the restore shortcut(s) to get them back.

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