If you close a Chrome tab containing an article, use the reopen-closed-tab shortcut—not the shortcut for creating a new tab. The difference matters: one brings back a recently closed page, while the other opens a blank tab for a new browsing task.
Use the shortcut that restores the closed tab
On Windows or Linux, press Ctrl+Shift+T. On a Mac, press Command+Shift+T. Chrome reopens closed tabs in the order in which they were closed, starting with the most recent one. The restored tab appears as a normal browser tab, so you can continue reading the page that was closed.
These shortcuts are documented in Google Chrome’s keyboard shortcuts guide.
Do not substitute the new-tab shortcut
Ctrl+T on Windows or Linux, and Command+T on a Mac, create a new tab. They do not reopen the previous page. A new tab may therefore look empty or show Chrome’s new-tab screen, which can be confusing if you expected the closed article to return.
Hypothetical example: An adult reader closes a public news article by mistake on Windows. They first press Ctrl+T and see a new tab. Nothing is wrong with Chrome; that shortcut created a fresh tab. They then press Ctrl+Shift+T, and the closed article returns in the reopened tab.
What reopening does not guarantee
The shortcut is for bringing back a recently closed tab, not for guaranteeing that every activity inside the page will be unchanged. Do not assume that unsent form contents, an account session, Incognito browsing, or a previously restored current match state will return. For a second fictional comparison, the reader closes article A, then article B. Reopening once returns B, the most recently closed tab; another reopening returns A. That order explains why the first result might not be the article the reader intended. Use Ctrl+T or Command+T only when you genuinely want a separate new tab.
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