Add a keyboard shortcut for "undo tab close"

[Michael Terry]

It is very useful to be able to undo an accidentally-closed tab. Either because of a missed mouse click on the tab bar, accidentally hitting ctrl+w instead of ctrl+a (or whatever), or just simply being dumb.

Chromium and Firefox both use Shift+Ctrl+T for this.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Agreed, that would be a very useful addition.

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Without considering what competitors do, Shift+Ctrl+W would seem to make more sense than Shift+Ctrl+T. (Though we also have Ctrl+F4, so maybe also Shift+Ctrl+F4.)

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

The linked branch looks like it implements a very bare bones version of this (restores a new tab with the closed URL). Which may be a good first cut. But note that our competitors (at least Firefox & Chrome) restore full state:

1) Position of tab relative to other tabs
2) Forward/back history of tab
3) State of form data and such in that tab

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package webbrowser-app - 0.23+16.04.20151111.2-0ubuntu1

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webbrowser-app (0.23+16.04.20151111.2-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  [ CI Train Bot ]
  * New rebuild forced.
  * Resync trunk.

  [ Olivier Tilloy ]
  * Add missing unit test cleanup.
  * Ship empty apparmor hardware profile directories to avoid adding a
    runtime dependency on apparmor-easyprof-ubuntu. (LP: #1511439)

  [ Ugo Riboni ]
  * Add keyboard shortcuts to undo closing tabs (Ctrl+Shift+T and
    Ctrl+Shift+W). (LP: #1499767)
  * Create the webview in a safer way, by keeping the incubator around
    and monitoring the progress, and by using sync creation if there is
    a pending request. (LP: #1514701)
  * Hide webviews created via onNewViewRequested until the tab they
    belong to becomes current. (LP: #1464436)
  * Use lowercase letters for keyboard shortcut invokation in autopilot
    tests.

 -- Olivier Tilloy <email address hidden> Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:04:11 +0000