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Oops, I clicked a random tab, now I can't find my previous tab.

Surely there is a keyboard shortcut to go back where I was ?

Note : I have 2185 tabs open in 21 windows

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And goes back to the previous tab

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Only if you have the addon Select After Closing Current Which I have, but I don't want to close random tabs, because I'm trying to get back to my previous tab, not read the current tab and determined if I still need it.

Select After Closing Current is great for allowing pulling a tab out of a window, and have that window go back to its previous tab

But Select After Closing Current, is very annoying if you close tabs, you might want to close several tabs in a row , but if you do that, each tab you close causes it to jump around to the previous tab, instead of the right most tab. Really hope I can make at some point a version that can do one but not the other

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Just use Control+Shift+Tab to go forward again ;)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

No, it goes to the previous tab you had opened without any extensions. Your use case of “needing” 2k tabs is not reasonable. Close the tab to go back to the one you were just on.