582993 - offer an Tab Menu Item/Function to restore all closed (by "Close Other Tabs") Tabs at once e.g. by "Undo Close Tabs"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 887515

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Michael Monreal [:micmon]]

After using the "Close Other Tabs", Fx should replace the "Undo Close Tab" action with "Undo Close Tabs" to restore all closed tabs. Right now you can restore one tab at a time which can be very annoying if you pressed Close Other Tabs by accident and closed like 50 tabs...

Comment 1

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

"Undo Close Tab" should be kept though and not be replaced.

Comment 2

[Michael Monreal [:micmon]]

I thought about that myself but really, after doing a "close other tabs", restoring one tab (the first one of the 10 or 50 tabs you just closed in one go) does not make much sense IMHO.

Comment 3

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

The Recently Closed Tabs menu offers Restore All Tabs.

Comment 4

[Dirkjan Ochtman (:djc)]

Nice to know, but hard to find. Something more easily discoverable would be nice.

Comment 5

[Daniel Desira]

i think this should be in a 'recently closed tabs' sub-menu in the menu which pops up when right clicking a tab.

Comment 7

[Alex Faaborg [:faaborg] (Firefox UX)]

copying comment over from bug 609628:

>When the user closes multiple tabs through the context menu command "Close
>Other Tabs" the associated undo operation (Undo Close Tab) should switch to
>"Undo Close Tabs" and restore the entire set, and not just a single tab for the
>set.  This should also apply to the keyboard shortcut accel-shift-t

Comment 8

[Frank Yan (:fryn)]

We might also consider tackling the tab/window undo stack altogether, which would also fix bug 565771 and avoid future messy stopgaps.

Comment 9

[Matthew Turnbull [Bluefang]]

(In reply to comment #5)
> i think this should be in a 'recently closed tabs' sub-menu in the menu which
> pops up when right clicking a tab.

I agree. The "Recently Closed Tabs" menu should be moved to the tab content menu. It's contextually more appropriate and more discoverable there.

IMHO, the "Undo Close Tab" menu item should be replaced with "Recently Closed Tabs" menu, and then add "Restore Last Closed Tab(s)" and "Restore All Tabs" to the top of the menu.

"Restore Last Closed Tab(s)" would be intelligent and know if only a single tab was close, or if multiple tabs were closed at once.

This would give the user the easy option of doing a bulk tab restore, or quickly picking and choosing the specific one(s) they want.

Comment 10

[eyal gruss]

alex: should this also undo multiple closed tabs from a multi-select close?

Comment 11

[Alex Faaborg [:faaborg] (Firefox UX)]

>alex: should this also undo multiple closed tabs from a multi-select close?

yeah

Comment 12

[Hideo Oshima]

"Close Tabs to the Right" has been implemented by bug 866880.
So I also want this feature.