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I'm switching back to Safari from Chrome. Now that I figured out how to get Safari to let me navigate tabs the way I want, only one thing remains: I want to be able to reopen my last closed tab with cmd+shift+T.

Near as I can tell, it's not a matter of making a keyboard shortcut in System Preferences, since Safari does not have a menu item for opening the last closed tab. So how else can I go about this?

(I've got one slot left available in the free version of FastScripts, so it'd be handy if there were an AppleScript solution for this.)

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Try clicking ⌘-Z (for undo).

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Mind: blown. Never thought it'd be that simple. – Abby T. Miller♦ Oct 6 '11 at 2:16
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@AbbyΨ - I've long had a theory about "Using an Apple product to do something you've never done before": ① Imagine that you are a brilliant person with a deep knowledge of both technology and human factors. ② Imagine how that version of you would make that feature accessible to anyone. ③ Try whatever comes to mind. End result: It's amazing how often the process works. Try it some time! – Dori Oct 6 '11 at 2:25
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Thank you, Steve. – Daniel Lawson♦ Oct 6 '11 at 3:58
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Unlike Chrome's ⌘+shift+T, Safari's ⌘+Z can only re-open a single tab. For anything more than the last closed tab, you'll need to go through your history. – drfrogsplat Sep 6 '12 at 2:00
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@Hawken, to me multiple tabs are analogous to having multiple documents open at once in any other application, like a tabbed text/image viewer/editor. In Photoshop, Preview, TextEdit, etc you don't "undo" closing a file, you re-open a recent file... that's not part of the 'undo chain'. Each file has its own, independent undo chain/history. – drfrogsplat Dec 10 '12 at 1:10
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