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How to Restore Accidentally Closed Browser Windows and Tabs

Open menu to restore accidentally closed browser windows or tabs
This is on the Google Chrome browser.

Almost everyone has done it at some point: you accidentally close your browser and instantly realize you just lost a huge collection of tabs you still needed.

Fortunately, most major web browsers have included session restore features for many years now, making it easy to recover accidentally closed tabs and windows in seconds.

How to Restore Closed Windows in Google Chrome

If you accidentally closed all your Google Chrome windows:

  1. Open Chrome again
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How to Clear Your Internet Browser Cache on Desktop and Mobile

Chrome Advanced Settings, clear browser cache, content and cookies

In our previous post, Do Your Website Visitors Have to Clear Their Browser Cache? Here’s Why That’s a Problem - And Why You Don’t Need to Worry with UltimateWB, we talked about how you don't want to require your website visitors to clear their cache, and how UltimateWB is the solution for that. But, in case you need to clear your cache on a device and you don't know how, here it is...

Starting with the basics...

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Browsers People Use to Visit Your Website – And the Surprise Visitor We Got This Week

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It's Spring 2025. You might think everyone is browsing the web with the latest version of Chrome, Safari, or Firefox these days - but that’s not always the case. In fact, we recently had a surprising visit from someone using Internet Explorer 9.0. Yep, IE 9, which was released in 2011 and officially discontinued by Microsoft years ago, is still making rare appearances on the web.

This unexpected visit inspired us to dive deeper into what browsers users

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How to Search in Incognito Mode?

New Incognito Window, Google Chrome

As mentioned in an earlier blog post, "How can I check the SEO ranking of my website?", it can be useful to search for your website's target keywords in Incognito Mode to check your search engine ranking without your personal search history influencing it.

Here's how to search in incognito mode in the most popular browsers:

  • Google Chrome:
    1. Click the three vertical dots in the top-right corner of the browser.
    2. Select "New Incognito window."
    3. A new window will open
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Microsoft releases Internet Explorer security patch, for Windows XP too

Microsoft has just released a security patch to fix the major security bug that was reported for Internet Explorer (IE) this previous weekend.  And they included Windows XP too, since the security flaw was found so close to its end of support date,  April 8th, according to Adrienne Hall, general manager with Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing section: "Of course, we're proud that so many people loved Windows XP, but the reality is that the threats we face today from a security... Continue reading
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Internet Explorer bug, Use Google Chrome/Mozilla Firefox to avoid hacking

Internet ExplorerUPDATE: Microsoft releases Internet Explorer security patch, for Windows XP too If you are using Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE), the U.S. Department of Homeland security is advising you to switch to another web browser until Microsoft releases a fix for a serious security issue.  And if you are still a Microsoft XP user, as you may know, Microsoft has stopped support for this operating system April 8th of this year, so you should either keep using a different internet browser... Continue reading
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