# Close Tab History Button

> Open a list of the recently closed tabs.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/close-tab-history-button](https://chrome-stats.com/d/close-tab-history-button)

## Overview

- **ID:** `close-tab-history-button`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Button Guy
- **Category:** tabs
- **Daily users:** 852
- **Weekly downloads:** 4
- **Rating:** 3.92 / 5 (36 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.7resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-25
- **First published:** 2017-10-06
- **Size:** 20 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-13
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/close-tab-history-button/)
- **Website:** [https://codefisher.org/forum/](https://codefisher.org/forum/)

## Description

The **Close Tab History Button** Chrome extension lets you quickly access and restore recently closed tabs, enhancing your browsing experience. It provides a convenient list of your closed tabs, from which you can select and reopen any tab effortlessly.

This extension is part of the broader Toolbar Buttons project and is built with the MozButton SDK. It complements other tab management tools such as Reload All Tabs Button, Stop All Button, and Close All Tabs Button. Stay connected through Twitter or contribute via GitHub to help improve this useful tab management tool.

## Rankings

- #3,688 — Overall
- #353 — Tabs
- #14 — close
- #25 — history
- #38 — story
- #79 — store

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `sessions`
- `tabs`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

### Pros

- Easy access to recently closed tabs
- Simple user interface
- Functions correctly in some versions of Firefox
- Helpful for restoring closed tabs
- Clean and easy to read list of closed tabs

### Cons

- Does not consistently show closed tabs
- Issues with settings not applying properly
- Limited to 25 tabs by default unless Firefox settings are adjusted
- Stopped working for some users
- Lacks features available in similar add-ons

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/close-tab-history-button)