Recover tab history when reopening tab

[ghost]

When you recover a closed tab in Chrome, it also recovers that tab's history. This means that you can navigate back through the history of a reopened tab as if it had never been closed. It would be excellent to see this ability added to RecoverTabs!

[aikinai]

I agree!

I'd like to completely switch to Safari with Yosemite and this extension gets me almost there, but history in recovered tabs is the last thing I'm missing from Chrome.

[Antrikshy]

Unfortunately, as much as I would like to too, I don't think it is possible to do that. I do not think there is any way to edit the history of an open window.

[rben01]

Even though the browser will not have a record of a reopened tab's history, could an extension-specific macro be created to accomplish the same task? So that hitting e.g. Cmd-left will cycle through RecoverTabs' record of the tab's history.

[Antrikshy]

I don't know of any possible way to save a tab's history from Safari's extension APIs. The only way would be to track every single page that the user visits and save them in memory by each tab. This would cause a huge performance hit. Heck, I get lag and stuttering when I set RecoverTabs to never forget closed tabs (it's in the extension settings in Safari's Preferences if you want to try it out).