NOTE: Safari has implemented this functionality for several versions now (since Safari 5, in one form or another), so this plugin is no longer required. It it maintained here for posterity.
Anamnesis is a SIMBL-based plugin for Safari on OS X that implements "Reopen Last Closed Tab," a feature I’m tired of waiting for Apple to add. The source code is released under the MIT License. Features include the following:
- Reopen tabs that have been closed on the current window, obviously
- Maintains all history for closed tabs
- Reassigns the "Hide/Show Tab Bar" key combination to
⌥⇧⌘Tso that the⇧⌘Tkey combination can be assigned to reopen the last closed tab - Adds a Reopen Last Closed Tab option to the History menu
- Works on both 32-bit and 64-bit Safari
There are still a few quirks that I’m working out, but they shouldn’t affect usage for most people:
- The "Reopen Last Closed Tab" option replaces "Reopen All Windows From Last Session" in the History menu. This isn’t due to a technical restriction, but for some reason the History menu doesn’t like being modified. I suspect that this has something to do with the fact that it displays a variable number of history items underneath "Reopen All Windows From Last Session."
- Reopening the last tab doesn’t restore user input into forms
- If you reopen a window, you can’t reopen tabs in that window
I’m still working on these, but I suspect the first won’t bother most people and the last two only make it slightly less useful.
Anyway, if you want to give it a shot, do the following:
- Quit Safari
- Download and install SIMBL
- Compile the Anamnesis project to generate
Anamnesis.bundle - Copy
Anamnesis.bundleinto either/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Pluginsor~/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins(create one of these directories if they don’t exist) - Fire up Safari
To uninstall, just delete Anamnesis.bundle from wherever you put it and
restart Safari.