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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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The Curious Case of an Internet Explorer 11 Visitor in 2025

Posted on December 23, 2025 by
Website visitors, analytics, showing browsers used, including IE 11

It’s late 2025 - you’d probably assume everyone browsing the web is on Chrome, Safari, Edge, or Firefox. And for the vast majority of sites, that is true. But recently we spotted a visitor using Internet Explorer 11 - the last major version of “IE” - and it reminded us that even discontinued browsers aren’t completely gone.

Earlier this year, we shared how someone landed on our website using IE9 - a browser from 2011! That visit

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WebP vs. JPG/PNG: Should You Use Fallback Images for Compatibility?

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Optimizing images for performance is crucial. It is one of the scoring factors on Google's PageSpeed Insights, making it important for search engine optimization too. One of the biggest decisions web developers and website owners face is whether to upload images exclusively as WebP or provide JPG/PNG fallback versions for compatibility. The UltimateWB website builder makes it easy to create WebP images and include JPG/PNG fallback versions in the code with the click of a button. WebP is widely

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Why use the html5 input type “date” if it’s not supported in Safari?

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You're right, if you use the HTML5 code
<input type="date"> 
it displays a date picker in Chrome and Firefox, but just the default text box in Safari, as the date picker is not supported there. So, I wouldn't use it, in the interest of user friendliness and cross-browser/platform compatibility. I would opt for a different method, i.e. choosing a month, day, year from menus instead - which is what UltimateWB does too for the built-in Calendar app.

Are you ready

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Microsoft releases Internet Explorer security patch, for Windows XP too

Major Internet Browsers 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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