Quick fixes: restoring pages of tabs on Chrome

Issue

I was forced to manually shut down Chrome and reboot my computer - losing dozens of tabs.

Quick fix

Use Shift-Ctrl-T on a PC or Shift-Command-T on a Mac to restore tabs. You can also use History to restore complete Chrome windows, including all groups and tabs.

The full story

Over the weekend, I needed to use my somewhat elderly MacBook Pro - the one I usually use for work - for a Zoom call. Unfortunately, I had been running several work projects and had two iterations of Chrome going, each with about 40 or 50 tabs. (Okay, I had a couple of other apps going as well.) As a result, when I began to run Zoom, the computer started to go on strike.

I didn't have time to start winnowing out which tabs I could easily lose or save them as...

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