Please for the love of god add a "Recently Closed Windows" section
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MagmaX959 last edited by leocg
I just accidentally closed all my tabs because one of my windows froze. I had 3 windows open. My main, then two side windows. One of the side windows froze, and I tried to close everything at once to recover it, but it closed my main window, then the other side window. Then when I tried to close the frozen side window, it was too late. Everything was gone. All my main tabs, all my tab groups, everything gone.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@magmax959 Here if I close a window, I can reopen it by going to the tabs menu (the magnifying glass near to the minimize button) or to menu > history.
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MagmaX959 last edited by
Just tested that by closing a second window, closing the last window, then opening a closed tab from that window. You method works, but it's too late for me now. My closed main window isn't in the recent history for that anymore.
Still, a method exists native to Chrome, Edge, and Firefox that restores windows, and says so. Opera only has tabs. Nothing it is says to "Restore Window". Your method it even hidden and not in the "History" window or sidebar where you would find the "Restore Window" option in most of the other browsers.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@magmax959 Hidden? It's in the place where closed tabs and windows belong, that tabs menu.
The only thing is that it will show the title of one of the tabs in the closed window with an indicator on the right that it's a window and not just a tab. -
MagmaX959 last edited by
I saw "Hidden", because I have never noticed that magnifying glass before. I have never needed to search through tabs, so never recognized that icon. If I even needed to re-open a closed tab, I went to the History sidebar, like I would assume most people did. That is how I did it with Chrome, and in Firefox after that. I would naturally expect recently closed items to be found in History. But in the History window, it does not retain the information that a tab was part of a closed window if you close all of your windows. This is my issue. It does remember and restore that in other browsers, even if after you close everything.
The History tab was the first place I went to when I had made my mistake, and it only let me open a single tab at a time. It would not recover the whole window. -
leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@magmax959 In the history panel you can also reopen a closed window.
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MagmaX959 last edited by leocg
@leocg My Man!!!! You Just Saved Me So Much!
So, I had happened to save my sessions Right After I had lost my windows and tabs. I kept them in a folder hoping there might be a way to save them. Loading that session info back into the Opera folder set everything back to Right After the windows had closed, and I saw what you were saying. I didn't notice it before, but I noticed it this time, and you just saved all my everything.
I can not express the relief you have given me, cuz I got so mad when I realized what had happened. Thank you so much. -
burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
Check out the Sessions Buddy extension when you get a change. You can save and restore sessions when you want. It can kind of bee good as a backup. Just note that it doesn't understand Opera's workspaces, so if you user workspaces in Opera, the extension won't help restore things perfectly in the right workspace. But, you could still get all your tabs back for a window for example if you had the session saved.
Also note that you can right-click on a tab in the tab bar, goto "all" and choose "all tabs to a speed dial folder". You can then name that folder what you want. You can do that for each window you want too. Then, since speed dial folders have a "right-click -> open all in new window", you can use that to restore those tabs in that folder. You can also bookmark new tabs one of those speed dial folders to add to it if you want.
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MagmaX959 last edited by
@burnout426 Yup, I had seen about Session Buddy when originally looking for a solution to my problem. I have it installed now as a back up.
Didn't know about the "All tabs to a speed dial folder" thing. I'm gonna try that out. Might actually be better than a workspace.Oh ya. I just tried out that tab tip you suggested, and I love it. Gonna transfer all my workspace tabs into those now.
