Google is seemingly engaged on a function that will allow you to immediately reopen a closed tab on Chrome. In its present state, tabs you shut are cleared from the reminiscence and the browser reloads your complete webpage while you reopen them.

The function in query is named Closed Tab Cache. As first reported by Chrome Story, Closed Tab Cache will quickly cache the contents in a tab. This method, customers can immediately reopen the tabs they may have by accident closed.

“We are currently (June 2020) actively working on delivering the Back-Forward Cache for Chrome. This cache will make back and forward navigation instant…We expect to get a big UX win by being able to restore such tabs instantly with their entire state,” reads the general public documentation of the function.

Closed Tab Cache is much like the Back-forward cache (bfcache) flag that’s at the moment out there in Chrome Canary. The improvement workforce plans to have a purposeful prototype for closed tab cache by the point bfcache will get rolled out to the steady channel.

Going by the documentation, the workforce plans to maintain the tabs in reminiscence for a minimum of 15 seconds. The time-limit could also be altered afterward primarily based on utilization patterns.

Closed Tab Cache is within the works for Mac, Windows, Linux, and Chrome OS. The workforce, nonetheless, acknowledges that Android already has an identical implementation, though it’s not as superior as Closed Tab Cache.

To start with, Closed Tab Cache will exist behind a Chrome flag. The flag is alleged to go stay in 52 days, which roughly interprets to virtually two months. Whenever it turns into out there, it would first be enabled within the Canary channel of Chrome.