How-to guide
How to reopen closed tabs in Chrome
Press Ctrl+Shift+T (⌘+Shift+T on a Mac) to reopen the last tab you closed. To find an older one by name, press ⌘K with TabCmdr, type :r and pick it from the list.
Quick answer
Reopen any closed tab in three steps
- ⌘K
Step 1
Open the palette
Ctrl+K on Windows and Linux. Works on any page.
- :r
Step 2
List closed tabs
Newest first, with when you closed each one.
- ↵
Step 3
Press Enter
The highlighted tab opens again.
Chrome's way
Chrome’s built-in ways to reopen a tab
- Keyboard shortcut. Press Ctrl+Shift+T on Windows and Linux, or ⌘+Shift+T on a Mac. It reopens the last tab you closed. Press it again for the one before that. If the last thing you closed was a whole window, the shortcut brings the window back.
- History menu. Open the More menu (⋮) and choose History. The menu lists the tabs and windows you closed recently.
- History page. Press Ctrl+H on Windows and Linux, or ⌘+Y on a Mac, to search everything you’ve visited.
Source: Google’s tabs and keyboard shortcuts help pages, checked in October 2026.
The shortcut only works backwards, one tab at a time. To get back a tab you closed five tabs ago, you reopen the four you closed after it first.
TabCmdr's way
Find and reopen any closed tab with TabCmdr
TabCmdr is a keyboard launcher that lives in your browser. It lists your recently closed tabs newest first, shows when you closed each one, and lets you search them by name, so only the tab you pick reopens.
Before you start: add TabCmdr from the Chrome Web Store. It has a 7-day free trial and needs no account.
Step 1: Open the palette
Press ⌘+K on a Mac or Ctrl+K on Windows and Linux, on any page.
Step 2: Type :r
Your closed tabs are listed newest first, and each row shows how long ago you closed it, such as Just now, 2m ago or 3h ago.
:r lists the tabs you closed, newest first.TabCmdr reads the last 24 entries Chrome keeps and lists the tabs among them. Closed windows aren’t in this list.
To narrow the list, add a word from the tab’s title or address after :r. Here, :r invoice leaves one tab.
:r invoice finds the closed invoice tab.Step 3: Press Enter
The highlighted tab opens again. The other closed tabs stay in the list for later.
You don’t always need :r. In a normal search, matching closed tabs show up below your open tabs, and up to five of them appear before you type anything.
Reopen the last tab with one command
Type undo in the palette and press Enter on Undo Close Tab. Like Ctrl+Shift+T, it reopens the last tab you closed, or the window if that was the last thing you closed.
Closed it days ago?
Chrome’s list of closed tabs is short. For anything older, search your browsing history instead. In TabCmdr, type :h and a word from the page. In Chrome, press Ctrl+H or ⌘+Y. Searching your history covers the TabCmdr side in more detail.
Try it on your own tabs
Works in Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, Vivaldi and Opera.
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