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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.
    – hairboat
    Oct 6, 2011 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, 2011 at 2:25
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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, 2012 at 2:00
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    @drfrogsplat @ Dori -- It really makes you wonder which way makes more sense, accidentally closing a tab is obviously something to undo; but, though I may dislike it, browsers have become more of a platform than an application, the 'undo' should affect the content, not the browser itself. Although, in a world where webpages remained pages, not trying to be pseudo-applications, Safari's metaphor would, make more sense.
    – Hawken
    Dec 9, 2012 at 16:10
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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, 2012 at 1:10
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As it was mentioned already ⌘+Z only works for one tab. If you would like to be able to reopen more than 1 tab, try retab, an open source Safari extension. You can customize the key-bindings to match Chrome-style ⌘+⇧+T too.

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As of macOS Sierra beta 1, ⌘ + shift + T works the same way on safari.

Reference: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/4v07pt/command_shift_t_now_works_in_safari/

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or you can download the app SafariTabs There is a feature that saves the tabs and you can restore them for each session. It requires SIMBL to be installed. I haven't tried it yet.

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  • Welcome to AskDifferent! Generally we like answers to explain how the linked item will help the situation. An ideal answer would link the software, list the features of the software, and explain how those features will help answer the original poster's question.
    – daviewales
    May 22, 2013 at 11:20
  • thank you for informing me so, I was afraid that I would be accused for "advertising". I edited the post a bit.
    – Yannis Dran
    May 22, 2013 at 12:12
  • That's OK. =D I think the general idea is that the answers are "self contained". You should be able to tell if the answer is relevant without having to click on the link.
    – daviewales
    May 22, 2013 at 13:37
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    Incidentally, I'm not sure this plugin does exactly what the OP wanted. He wanted to be able to open the last closed tab, but I think this plugin just enables the option to open all tabs from the previous session, which is already an option in Safari 6.
    – daviewales
    May 22, 2013 at 13:40
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    ah, jeez, you are right.. :s
    – Yannis Dran
    May 23, 2013 at 12:42
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If you are using Keyboard Maestro you could emulate the Chrome behaviour (including multiple undos) with a HotKey trigger. I did an initial run at it. Thats the gist of it.

(Keep in mind, that you're loosing the history in each tabs. Its really only to get the URLs back.)

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