How-to: Bring That Tab Back in Safari
I used to be a Firefox loyalist, but after reading your browser roundup (“¡Lucha Libre de Web!” Dec/09), I switched to Safari. I’m loving the speed, but I miss being able to reopen the last closed tab. Safari will reopen my last closed window, but I typically use just one window a day, opening and closing dozens of tabs.
Check out Glims for Safari (free, machangout.com), a handy add-on that lets you undo closing a tab. Yep, you just press Command-Z and your last closed tab reopens. Press Command-Z again, and the tab you closed before that reopens. Glims has other tricks up its sleeve too, like letting Safari run in full-screen mode, letting you change the default search engine, adding thumbnails to your Google search results, and more. After you install Glims, you can control its many behaviors via the new Glims tab added to Safari > Preferences.

Glims adds many tab-wrangling features to Safari, even letting you specify the location of newly opened tabs in Safari's tab bar.
One caveat: Glims’ developers don’t recommend you use Glims alongside similar Safari plug-in Saft ($15, haoli.dnsalias.com/Saft/), or you could get “unexpected results.” If the letter-writer had Saft, they probably wouldn’t have written us this letter, but the rest of you should proceed with caution if you’re already running Saft.
kylerwalker
May 12, 2010 at 3:01pm
i cep on looking on my mac for somthing like that but i could not find it. but i looked in the WRONG SECTION
ilikeimac
May 03, 2010 at 10:17pm
I love the "Force forms autocomplete always on." I've patched WebKit to get that in the past; this is much cleaner. I also like "Re-open last session when Safari starts" and the ability to force links to always open in a new tab instead of new windows. Thanks for the tip!
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