Closed all 500 tabs by mistake

My son closed all 500 tabs on safari about 15 days ago.Can I get it back

Posted on Sep 24, 2021 12:30 AM

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Sep 26, 2021 8:29 AM in response to Eric_G1

DOESN'T WORK!! Like an idiot, I allowed Safari to update, and of course, truly regret doing so, as Safari is now buggy, and lost dozens of my open tabs and windows! Why does Apple continually release updates that only mess up what was already working, at least somewhat??


I went to "recently closed windows", saw many of the windows that the newest & greatest Safari transformed into blank Start Pages, and so figured, OK, I'll just manually re-open them all, and after a delay, be back in business. Well, the first window I opened, with a total of whole three tabs, opened two of them, but then got into a cycle of trying to open the third, but failing, and going over & over & over again, burning up about dozen Gigs of RAM, and showing me the spinning rainbow of doom, as the Activity Monitor kept flashing Safari Not Responding, off and on!


After a while, I tried to at least stop it from trying to reload that one single tab. Clicking on the X in the address window, did nothing. I then tried closing that one tab, clicking on the tab's X, and still no response. Finally, after doing so over & over, it finally closed that tab. So I went back to the History menu, to begin opening the rest of the recently closed windows, and guess what? THEY ARE NOW GONE! So great, I"ve got about 25 windows and 50/60 tabs no longer visible to be able to open back up! Now, the only option left is to go scanning through days of history, looking for a tab here or there, to open.... this is really disgusting. I'm so tired of Apple's updates screwing up my workflow, whether it's the browser or OS, iTunes, & other areas of performance, or lack thereof.




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