Your browser keeps a detailed history of every page you visit. This can help your browser to improve its performance, but you can also use it to find a website you visited but can’t remember, or to retrieve a tab you closed accidentally.

Website autocomplete in Chrome
Website autocomplete - brought to you by your browser's history

To access your history in Chrome, click on the three-dot menu and select History. The first line in the history menu will bring you to the history page, which gives you access to your full browser history. Below that, you can see a list of tabs you’ve closed recently. If you ever need to reopen a recently-closed tab, open the history menu and select the tab to reopen it!

Accessing the browser history in Chrome
Accessing the browser history in Chrome - click History to see your full history

Inside the history page, you’ll be presented with a view of your full browsing history, organized by date, along with a tool for searching your history. From there, click on a page to open it, or click the three-dot menu for more options, including removing the page from your history.

The browser history feature in Chrome
The browser history feature in Chrome