Chromium

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Nick, what should we do on this one?

I agree that it would be nice to have access to a larger number of closed
tabs/windows, but I'm not sure a lot of people would bother changing this setting.
Another solution would be to save the closed tab information permanently in the
history, and display it there instead.

Glen, Scott, any thoughts on this?

I agree with Nick.

The NTP is not the place to surface UI that you dig through; the history page is.

The intersection of recently closed tabs and history continues to be interesting - we
need better integration of the two, and this is part of that.

Ok, I'll leave this available then until we redesign the history page.

-1, I don't think history is a good place for recently closed tabs.

Can't we just do it the Opera way?
 (That is only display tabs that were closed during this session)
While placing such info in History is a bit odd, as History is supposed to remain
much longer...(and IMHO; history still needs improvement too)

I'd love to see something like a long press on the (+) to recover any recently closed
tab.

I agree that simply adding this info in history would be confusing, so we might need a separate page. One idea
that came up in a conversation with Scott was to have this as a sorting option for the history ("sort by last
closed").

I like the idea of a separate page that is reachable by way of some UI in the
recently closed section of the NTP. Chevrons or a 'See more' link would probably work
well for this.

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I've found a bit of a work around.  So the computer tech guy closes all 20 tabs
individually when he wanted to close Chrome.  When we restarted Chrome, each time I
re-opened one of the 3 previously closed tabs, a new one appeared.  20 clicks, and
ta-da! I had my old Chrome back.  It meant I had to open tabs I no longer needed just
so I could see what was further down the list, but that was a minor pain compared to
the "OH MY GOD YOU DID WHAT???" moment I started with.  ;-)

@jposkey
Ctrl+Shift+T will reopen the last tab you closed.
but only up to 10 tabs
that's why i am surprised to hear you were able to recover 20

Hmmm, good question.  I take that back.  There were only a couple of tabs that I
really cared about, so I just kept going backwards until I found them.  They must
have been numbers 9 and 10, because it seemed like I opened quite a few.

It's good to know that 10 is the limit.  I regularly keep >40 tabs open, and I've
been trusting that I have a long line of history on them, just in case.  It's good to
know that the magic number is 10.  (Yes, I just tested.)  Sorry to give you false
hopes, but at least it's a way to get beyond the apparent limit of 3.

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Please do it in settings.
about:settings, about:config or whatever
Yesterday I closed Chrome with 200 tabs, because I thought I'll re-open them tomorrow.
My girlfriend checked her e-mail before, I was pissed off! Limit of 6.
Again today, I had 50 tabs, then Chrome crashed. Then I opened new session I just wanted to check the train times and my mail. After that I released WTF I'm doing! Where my tabs?:(

The new tab page shows windows. So if you close a window with 200 tabs you can still restore that window with all 200 tabs.

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Tab window shows: 7 separate tabs (which could be combined), but it doesn't change that, when you open 7 other websites, you override the old one.

I can't see us exposing the ability to choose an arbitrary number of tabs, that's too finicky and it'll almost always not be what you want (eg, I wanted 200, but I set it to 100).

A better solution is likely to up the limit but slowly reduce it over time. For example, if you close 50 tabs we keep that fifty but over 10 minutes reduce it to 10. This covers the accidental close case.

It's not about time.
Very often I leave my tabs open when I'm going to sleep to come back and continue my work in the morning. If my girlfriend or anybody will close them accidentally and I'll wake up too late, I'll be pieced off. What's wrong to make this value configurable? Number and expire time. I want 100, I've 12GB of RAM, if it's about the memory.

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I think we need to be careful to separate the UI and backend issues here.

It is reasonable to try to increase the backend clamp -- possibly paired with an expiration model like https://crbug.com/chromium/3700#c20 proposes, if we have resource pressure from the increased clamp value -- without necessarily exposing a larger list of items anywhere in the UI or making the value configurable.

I would like to see us raise that backend value.  sky, do you have an idea what the resource cost of doing so would be?

Worse case for a tab is 50 (max number of entries allowed by NavigationController) * max size of NavigationEntry::content_state() (which can be quite large).

Can you give me an idea on the size of content_state()?

It seems like since we're willing to preserve all the tabs in a window when a user closes the window, that we're already potentially on the hook for a large number of tabs, so I don't know that upping the limit is going to be concretely worse.

I don't think we have a histogram for it, so I'm not sure. It's probably worth adding one though.

If Chrome is crashing all the time, do you have the "send crash reports" checkbox checked?  Have you reported the crashes based on the steps at http://www.chromium.org/for-testers/bug-reporting-guidelines/reporting-crash-bug ?

It seems like we should fix the problem before focusing on workarounds for the fallout.

@hyperioninstitute in https://crbug.com/chromium/3700#c28: also, see tentative resolution on "Tabaholism" from member of Chrome team here: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=90593#c1

@hyperioninstitute in https://crbug.com/chromium/3700#c28: actually this is bad idea to fix the problem you mention using the Recently Closed list. For this you case (a lot of opened tabs which crash on a regular basis) exist much better solution.
Check TabsOutliner extension:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabs-outliner/eggkanocgddhmamlbiijnphhppkpkmkl?hl=en

Just keep the closed tabs in the History, which has the quite long list.
The problem with the History is that I never can't find anything that I'm looking for, so maybe it's worst to make it useful at least for the closed tabs?
Still closed tabs are the history, so if you closed them at once, should be visible as a group.

There is one extension called Tabs Outliner which keeps track of crashed windows, so it could be very useful.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabs-outliner/eggkanocgddhmamlbiijnphhppkpkmkl?hl=en

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Someone please help with this!!  My kid shut down my two windows and I had about 10 tabs in each - - and I opened them at various times over the past several weeks meaning to take care of some things but just didn't get around to it, so it will be soooo time consuming to find them in the history, if I even can.  He then opened and close about 10 tabs so I can't go to the recently closed and get them. It would be great if there was a separate history for recently closed that was endless and included windows with multi-tabs.  This would have saved me eons of time over these years.  Thanks for any help anyone can give!

+1 to the overall sentiment. FWIW, 20 entries would probably satisfy me.

As a quick fix, how about having a link to chrome://history/ in the "Recently Closed" menu?

That wouldn't preclude future UI changes to add more items to the menu itself or exposing more of the items in History itself.

Sadly still relevant issue... and even more relevant now: with the new NTP page and "recently closed" menu being moved to the wrench menu (which itself is handier way to access them), the amount of tabs were reduced from 10 to 8.

8 is just a stupidly low limit. The "recently closed" submenu isn't vertically as long as the wrench/tools menu itself is, so there is certainly more room for additional entries.

Except that it also shows a smattering of tabs from "other devices", so it could get really, really long if that limit were increased much, especially for people with even just a handful of devices.

Good point, but it could change based on the amount of devices or something. (How many tabs it now shows per device? 8 too?)

And why is the first entry wasted on the bold "title" text?

My machine shows up to 4 per device underneath the 8 recently closed, and each one has the device name/label as the "bold title".

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No CL here.

This bug is confused.  Some people are wanting the backend to save more recently closed tabs.  Other people are wanting to surface more of that list, or to surface it in a different way or in a better place than the History submenu.  Or both.

Personally, I'd like more than 10 recently closed tabs remembered, and I'd like to see them all appear on the History page, especially when there isn't room in the dropdown menu for all of them.  But I'm rather skeptical that we're ever going to make changes to the backend part if we've left the existing limit in place this long.

It's not clear who'd make the decisions on this.  Probably sky could Just Change The Value on the backend part, but any UI changes would be more involved.

Leaving open, but P3.

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I am talking about the people who work in Google company on Chrome development directly. Is it like rocket science to develop a plugin or extension or whatever, to be able to save the whole session with all Tab's history, and save thousands of people from frustrating and disappointing and wasting lots of time ?!?!? Isn't "8 YEARS" enough for solving this primary issues which doesn't exist in other browsers at all ?!?!? Can anybody believe that one of top 3 companies in IT world, IS NOT ABLE to solve these issues ?!?!? Does it mean anything other than this fact that Google doesn't give a shit about anything other that their sales and benefit ?!?!?

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