Microsoft Edge has become one of the most powerful browsers of the moment on its own merit . In every sense: on the one hand and like alternatives like Chrome, Brave and others, it enjoys a Chromium base that, with its pros and cons, is the most powerful on the market; On the other hand, Microsoft’s work providing features – many of them exclusive and linked to the company’s services – has been impressive.
How to quickly recover closed tabs in Microsoft Edge
It can be safely stated, then, that Edge is one of the most powerful web browsers at the moment. In fact, at the level of features it is so much so that even Microsoft has considered giving the user the possibility of removing everything – or almost everything – that is not used, that is, deactivating optional features , to lighten it up a bit. the form and substance of the application. What is this nonsense about? Let’s get to the point.
The introduction comes because, taking into account the effort that the company has put into the development of the browser and the impetus with which they promote its use – many times, bordering on shamelessness if not illegality, it should be added -, it may be that There are those who consider the change and, at first, find an application with an elephantine configuration that is too lazy to delve into. But it’s worth doing, even if it’s just to tweak a couple of basic things.
Well, one of those basic things, or at least that’s how I consider it, is a shortcut from which to recover closed tabs , something available in almost any other modern browser, but which Microsoft Edge hides by default. By default, you can reopen a closed tab in two ways: with the keyboard shortcut “Ctrl+Shift+T”, only for the last closed tab; and through the “Actions menu for the tab”.
The problem with that menu (it is the button immediately before the first tab of the bar) is that it does not appear as close as it should, nor is it very convenient to use it frequently: you have to know where it is, click twice to access it to the option and the menu that opens, just to the right, in the toolbar , disappears after using it. However, setting it there is as simple as entering the browser settings and activating the corresponding setting.
Go to “Settings > Appearance > Customize the toolbar”, go to the bottom of the block and activate the “ History button ” option. You can now access recently closed tabs and even tabs on other devices from the toolbar button. An essential function these days that, for some reason that escapes me, is not available by default.
And before you say anything, think that Edge shows by default the extensions button, the split screen button, the collections button, the “browser basics” button… Are they really more necessary or useful? There will be opinions for all tastes, but if it was to avoid reloading the toolbar more, I don’t know. To all this, from the aforementioned configuration section you can activate and deactivate all of these and other buttons, as you wish.
