Is there a mouse shortcut in Google Chrome to reopen last closed tab?

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2014-04
  • Christian THC

    I know I can use the keyboard shortcut to reopen the last closed tab, but is there a mouse based method?

    It would be really handy. If I remember right, you used to be able to middle click on the tab bar to reopen tabs, but that got removed in later versions of Chrome, who knows why.

    An extension that offers that behaviour would be awesome.

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  • nixda

    There are some mouse gesture extensions who can do this. For example Smooth Gestures

    Under the options tab, you are looking for Undo close tab. You can choose between a Keyboard Shortcut, a Scroll Gesture, Mouse gesture or a Rocker Gesture to assign it.

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  • BenA

    Now that bookmark sync has made it up into the beta channel, I'm trying out Chrome a little more seriously. I'd like to know whether, whenever I middle-click on a link/bookmark to open it in a new tab, there's an option to immediately switch focus to that tab?

    If not then is there an extension that can add this behaviour?

    Update: Just realised that extensions are not enabled in v4 beta.

    Update 2: Extensions arrived on the beta channel, tabs to the front is now doing its job nicely :)


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  • dertoni

    For the Beta-Channel Version a Shift+Middle-click should do the trick.

    For the Dev-Channel Version (Extension system): There is an extension "Tabs to the front" which opens new Tabs in the foreground.