I think the Ctrl+Shift+T shortcut to reopen closed tabs works across sessions too.

That's the one feature that's definitly missing from Safari. (Safari only just now learned to re-open the last tab with Command-Z. All the other tabs you'll have to search for yourself in the recently closed pages-menu.)

History -> Reopen All Windows From Last Session

In addition to the "reopen all windows" option mentioned you would probably be wise to check out the Sessions safari extension if you tend towards my habit of keeping lots of state in tens of browser windows with lots of tabs in each window... Sessions does a much better job of actually remembering your open tabs and windows (I have had the LastSession plist get messed up and windows or tabs open up completely empty too many times to count) and you can create or edit various save points for collections of windows and tabs.

YES!!!

This did not work for me using Chromium 5.0.375.127 (0) under FreeBSD 8.1.

This.

Well yes, but if you have 20+ tabs open in a couple of windows, it's disruptive and time consuming to close and reopen all of them.

And I'm sometimes a little annoyed at all the things to which I've been saying for the last week "I'll get back to that" suddenly showing up in my company's proxy logs all at once.

If that's a serious concern you might want to rethink your company ;)

Chrome actually reopens all tabs for you if you use the command after restarting chrome. I don't like the author's solution because I use cmd 1-9 for navigating between tabs.

I don't like the author's solution either. Cmd+Option Q seems like an unused alternative that wouldn't require a major re-wire of habits to change to, just a slight mash of the keys to the left.

I initially thought Cmd+Shift Q would be better, but that is tied to System Logout.

Ah, that must be why there's the inconsistency between Mac and other platforms here. On Windows and Linux, Ctrl-Q does nothing; Ctrl-Shift-Q exits Chrome.

I forget where I saw this tip, but after making this mistake several times I remapped command-Q in Chrome to the "Zoom" command. (Keyboard control panel -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> Application Shortcuts). It's already saved me lots of time. And of course, any harmless menu command will work in place of "Zoom."

Edit: after I RTFA, I see this is much like what the article suggested. The only real difference is that my approach prevents you from quitting from the keyboard at all.

why not use sessioin buddy[0] plugin, which save your tabs, so you don't have to open 20+ all at once

[0] https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/edacconmaakjimmf...

Firefox + BarTab FTW.

Many sites use session cookies, which expire on exit.

That doesn't change the fact that I get mad and lose time whenever I accidentally close all my tabs.

If you have something typed up, it may not always come back. For instance, Facebook uses javascript-y input boxes, so if you accidentally back away or close the window, the browser will not restore your content. Also, a Flash game will not save your state, etc.

The sweet Sessions extension for Safari solves some of those problems.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8247646/sessions/index.html

And if you use the Recently Closed Tabs feature on the New Tab page, you can reopen sets of tabs that were all closed at once.

This is also a list of the "recently closed" tabs in the history menu if you cmd+w instead of cmd+q.

Yes, but it might not restore the state of the Web page at the time it was closed.