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Want your browser to continue where you left off? This is how

It’ll save you a bit of time trying to reopen those tabs again.

TABS ARE INCREDIBLY handy to use but sometimes you can have so many open, you forget what exactly you had open.

If you have to close your browser and restart, you would usually have to go by memory or search your history to find those tabs again.

Instead of starting afresh and trying to find those pages in your history, you can set your browser so that it starts exactly where you left off. All modern browsers allow this so here’s how to do it for each one.

(On a related note, pressing Ctrl + Shift + T reopens the last tab you’ve closed. Always handy to know).

Chrome

On Chrome, you need to go into menu (the three horizontal lines at the top right-hand corner) and scroll down to settings.

Here you will see the second entry ‘On Startup’ where you’ll see three options: start on new tab, resume previous session and open up specific pages. Choosing the middle will ensure that any tabs you had opened the last time you used Chrome will load up when you return.

On Startup

Firefox

Similar to Chrome, click on the menu icon at the top right-hand corner and select options. In the section which says Startup, you will see the option When Firefox Starts. Click on the dropdown menu and select Show my windows and tabs from last time.

firefox browser reopen

Opera

Unlike other browsers, Opera places its menu at the top left-hand corner of the screen. Click on it and scroll down to settings. The On Startup option will be the second entry on the list.

Opera browser

Safari

 

Slightly different if you’re on Mac, but by clicking on Safari at the top left-hand corner and selecting Preferences, you will see the option ‘Safari opens with’. Click on that and change it to All windows from last session.

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Microsoft Edge

The Windows 10 browser started off lightweight but introduced this feature as part of a later update. If you go into menu (three dots) and click on settings, you will see the option listed underneath previous pages.

Internet Explorer 

Click on settings at the top right-hand corner and select Internet Options. Under the general tab, go to the Startup section and select ‘Start with tabs from the last session’.

Internet Explorer

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    Mute Dean Mac Glennáin
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    Jan 11th 2015, 12:12 PM

    Battery for a month :O how is that possible !

    Oh wait it’s a nokia . .

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    Mute Charles Mcdonald
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    Jan 11th 2015, 12:00 PM

    2 gb in 6 seconds very nice :)

    Also the electric car thing…. hmmmmm that superchip is killing the battery. If u was to buy an EC today I want to be sure it can go as far as possible on a charge.

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    Mute Simon Tuohy
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    Jan 11th 2015, 2:41 PM

    I built a system with a raspberry pi, a screen and a microphone. Where by you could say lets say “baked alaska” and the screen would then display a recipe for baked alaska (off the bbc website). The issue with it 1.) it was that the voice control that I used, used the google speech recognition. Which didn’t like either my accent or microphone leading to a lot of errors. and 2. Wasn’t very tidy with wires hanging about so I took it apart. Was handy for a while though

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    Mute Stephen Devlin
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    Jan 11th 2015, 8:04 PM

    Any other craic?

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    Mute Daithí Ó'Céileachair
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    Jan 12th 2015, 5:47 PM

    Philips have been making long battery life phones like that for years, google the Xenium range. They are great

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