It would be handy if when a user closes a tab (maybe window also somehow?) the undo option should be enabled to reopen that tab with the last URL.

-> future

Please change to OS ALL Platform ALL.

do we really want this? microsoft never let me undo closing a document window.

Accidental closing of a tab is not terribly difficult. Undo should be limited, as opposed to the complex options available in e.g. a wordprocessor, but the info is there for Moz to to it. Simply have in view menu "reopen last closed tab", which could call the URL from last closed tab easier than could the user try and figure out from history window which history item was in the closed tab.

Reloading via history is also not terribly difficult, but neither will solve the real problem, which is losing a partially completed form. This is similar to what could always happen closing a window, and we've got by without such a feature for 8 years. Does any product have anything like this?

As far as the requirement goes for this feature... I have wanted something like this in a browser since Netscape 2.x It should be a relatively simple thing to implement and it would save myself (and I would think not only me) a lot of hassle at times. It would be nice if it also functioned on last closed windows too but that gets a little more sticky logistics wise. I had envisioned it just being an Undo option (since in the Browser... what else do we really Undo?) but as a new menu item it's not a bad idea either. Has another browser ever had this? I don't think so. Has that stopped Mozilla before? To make Mozilla my dream browser this one would surely help.

IIRC, Lotus 1-2-3 v2.2 introduced the concept of integrated undo to spreadsheets somewhere around 1987. I think before that there was an add-in available with undo function. In 1-2-3 v2.x there was never more than one sheet open at a time, and thus no tabs. File retrieve closed the current sheet/file and opened a new one, womething undo could completely reverse, IIRC. It seems to me that any browser has no problem going back to a previous page. That's what the back button is for. The close tab function could be made to emulate the behavior of leaving a page, that is, save the entire state of a page when the close tab function is called, saving it until such time as undo is called again or until all browser windows are exited. This really would be little different from what Mozilla does now when a different tab is made active, except that the tab to restore it would be hidden until undo is called. Whether the entire history of the closed tab should be preserved is a separate issue. Maybe it should be preserved, but limited to a fixed number of entries like done now with typed-in URL history.

See also bug 39165.

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It would be nice to have an undo feature, so I don't see why not. It can easily be done with history session. We should we be concern about the loss of the data session in this case? Why is this bug still unconfirmed? With the click of the mouse, I can change it to new but it doesn't change the fact. So, why should the undo option not be used???

You can look to Crazy Browser (http://www.crazybrowser.com/) and MyIE (http://www.ruihehang.com/myie2/index.htm) to see how other browsers implement this. Both use a variant of Edit->Undo and features an "Undo History" whereby it keeps track of all the tabs you have closed. MyIE extends this functionality with an optional toolbar button.

comfirming bug, but laeving at future and helpwanted.

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Opera 7.20 (but not earlier versions) let you undo closing tabs with Ctrl+Alt+Z.

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*** Bug 254021 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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Or course it will be 'feature', but there is an annoying situation without 'undo'. If you choose 'Close Tab' but due a mouse miss click to 'Close OTHER Tabs' it is very unpleasant to search for closed tabs in history. Will be glad to see View/Undo like in 3D Studio MAX.

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Is this actually distinguishable from bug 39165?

Here is a fix in the form of an extension: http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/undoclosetab

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This should be a focus for the 2.0 aviary release. Now that draggable tabs are in, this one makes sense also. Ditto for Duplicate Tab and FocusLastSelectedTab functions. see: http://twanno.mozdev.org/#duplicatetab http://gorgias.de/mfe/ (Focus Last Selected Tab)

Also TabX (puts a close button on each tab)

Why there is a X button needed on every Tab? You can close them with a middle (mouse-)click!

(In reply to comment #28) > Why there is a X button needed on every Tab? You can close them with a middle > (mouse-)click! Not everyone has a middle mouse button.

> Also TabX (puts a close button on each tab) Hell no! Only if it's optional and/or the tab bar can be scrolled. When browsing with LOTS of tabs it is already difficult to open the ones on the right hand side. I don't want to see what that looks like with a close button on EVERY tab. That would add usability problems rather than cure them.

Close tab X on individual tabs is WONTFIX Bug 108938. Please don't further spam this bug with that subject.

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Would it be possible to take a smaller steps towards this goal, by being able to preserve the ensire browser state of a single browser to disk. Serialize it to coin Java terminology. Preferable to a text like file that could be edited outside of mozilla. This would be useful if this was then integrated into X11 windows session management, where a user logging out with a bunch of tabs open, could have Mozilla save and restore on login back to the exact browser state and history. It would be presumed that a page reload of the current page needs to be performed and reloads of the back history pages needs to happen, just like it does if you scroll far enough back anyway. It would be really cool if for non-GET pages, instead of displaying a modal dialogue asking if you really want to do the POST again, that a HTML style page was display passivly with exactly the same message in the tab concerned. This way no annoying dialog appears on session restore, just a neat HTML page with a Click to confirm reload link. Each tabs state, would store the immediate Back History, immediate Forward History, any form data and other contents filled in, the scroll offset into the page, etc, etc... This might also allow a new type of bookmark to exist, that goes beyond storing your current tab-group selection. But also the history states. Might be useful to some people ? There maybe some extra information that would be more useful to an undo function within the same session. For example during accidental window/tab closure, but not much use in a later session. These details would need to be worked out. A number of benifits would be possible to the end users as a result of this and its surrounding work. Just needs someone to explain how it would be possible to go about doing that from the Mozilla code base ? "helpwanted" on that area.

nice-to-have, not a blocker. There's some improvements to be made about protecting tabs with partially completed forms, which is the big loss if you close that page (especially with the upcoming history rewrite that makes searching much less painful).

What happened to the ? Not seeing a - gets confusing, and sends the wrong signal. It should be indicated that this was denied a block status, so others don't go and set it again "accidentally".

For what it's worth, the SessionSaver extension's "SnapBack Tab" feature does this in the form of a submenu of the Tools menu listing the most recently closed x tabs, and I use it constantly. See http://adblock.ethereal.net/alchemy.cgi/SessionSaver

This feature works very well in Multizilla extension. You right click on a tab, select Reopen Closed Tabs and select which tab you want to reopen or select "Reopen all previously closed tabs". See: http://multizilla.mozdev.org/

Now using Session Manager http://sessionmanager.mozdev.org/ extension to do this. Uninstalled UndoCloseTab. Thankfully, between browser improvements and better extensions, my extension list is a bit shorter lately.

You know Seamonkey and perhap Firefox now have the warning prompt (popup dialog) that tell us we're closing the main browser (via "x" box at upper right corner) instead of the tabs to help to reduce the "once in a while" accidentically of closing the main browser. One thing I know for sure is no one would want that warning prompt for the closing of every one of the tab windows because it's a hassle. Also a suggestion here is to avoid the adding of the "Undo" tab button at the upper right corner where the "x" button (close tab) is because it add the risk of accidentally of pressing the wrong button. Might want to have that button at the upper left corner where the "Open a new tab" button is. Menus is another story here. Um, someone may want to file a bug (if the bug doesn't exist) on the missing "yellow pop-up highlight" comment where the "x" button (close tab) is since the "open a new tab" button have one. If a bug had already been filed for that then please let us know what bug # that is... That bug is so easy to fix in my opinion and it wouldn't hurt to have both of these bugs at once.

Since Firefox 2 includes the ability to reopen closed tabs, this bug sounds very fixed to me. Do reopen it if I'm being dense.

SeaMonkey now also includes this, so it sounds fixed to me too. :)

Incidentally, this was fixed by bug 254021 (Firefox) and bug 350416 (SeaMonkey).