I adopted Brave almost a year ago and the transition was incredibly smooth. There is only one missing feature that is frustrating me enough to consider giving up. I figured it was an oversight and thought it would be fixed by the next update back then. But it’s been almost a year and I’m breaking.
So here it is: I accidentally close a tab I didn’t want to close… quite often. Whether it’s a knee-jerk reaction, or thinking the wrong window was active, it’s happens often. And with every other browser I’ve used on the Mac (Safari, Chrome, Firefox) I just hit the key command for “Undo” [command-z] and voila! Tab returned. With Brave, nothing. I have to go into the history and sift through looking for that link. It’s often lost in a maze because I don’t remember the name, or I opened it hours or even days ago. Until I give up. I get so mad, I go back to Safari for a few days. Then I crawl back trying to get over it.
It may seem like a small nit to some, but it’s really quite a game changer for me. And this forum is my final hope. Please let me undo a tab closure.
Right click the bar where your tabs are placed (not on a tab) and choose “Reopen closed tab”.
Or simply Ctrl+Shift+T.
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You are a true hero. I’m certainly capable of learning a new key command with a little practice. Thanks!
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You’re welcome 
I mostly use the 2 clicks (I still don’t know the key command).
This worked for me - had to click the space to the right of the opened tabs for it to work. And then later, it didn’t work!?!?
To do this, you can:
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Most efficient/recommended method: After closing the tab, hit Cmd + Shift + T (Ctrl + Shift + T for Windows/Linux) to re-open the closed tab. Note that there is not time limit with this method, nor is there a limit on how many closed tabs you can re-open. For example, if I close 50 tabs (for whatever reason) one after another and realize I need the 30th closed tab re-opened, while a hassle, I could achieve this by simply hitting Cmd + Shift + T 30 times until that tab I needed reopens. Additionally, if I realize this is the case an hour later, I can still use this option to re-open all tabs closed during that browsing session.
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After you close a tab, right-click on the tab strip and select Reopen closed tab:
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Use History — all tabs there were opened will appear in your history. To view tabs you had open recently, you can go to Main Menu --> History and view what you had opened, then simply select the entry for the tab that you closed:
Lastly, if you’d like to change the commands to perform the keyboard shortcut, you can go to brave://settings/system/shortcuts, find the Reopen closed tab entry and set it to whatever command you’d like.
Hope this helps.
