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[arethinn]

When I click to open something in a new tab, is there a way to find out what page I clicked the link on (assuming I've closed that other tab already, I mean, I can't just go look)? I often find myself in the situation of wanting to say "I was sent here from xxx's journal" and not being able to actually remember who xxx was. I guess what I want to do is sniff out http referrer, so I know where I came from when landing on any given page. Is there some way to do that? FromWhereToWhere looks like it should do what I want, but the results don't seem consistent and/or always useful - sometimes I get blank history or "invalid date" (wha?), and LJ links seem to be obscured with the setdomsess cycle it goes through, so I don't see what journal entry I clicked from, nor even my flist page url. Hrm.

edit: I don't just mean "reopen closed tabs". I do that all the time. I mean when I am looking at a page which was opened in new tab, I want to know specifically what page contained the link that I clicked to get here.
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edit2: Turns out in Firefox the referrer is in the page info window (Tools > Page Info, or Alt + T + I - oh, for a hotkey, but I used to do Alt + B + O for bookmarks for a while when that didn't have a hotkey, so easily get-used-to-able). So so long as I open the entry page before clicking the link away from it (which is my usual behavior, especially if there are comments already), it's all good.

Comments

[shalora.livejournal.com]

Firefox has a section in History called Recently Closed Tabs... Saved my butt quite a few times when I closed the wrong tab by mistake and lost the page I spent half an hour trying to find in the first place.

[arcanetrivia]

I use the recently closed tabs list (although I limit it to 10 entries in my context menu), but that doesn't tell me which specific page opened which specific tab.

[aylira-tesayon.livejournal.com]

This is exactly what "undo close tab" is for, it is an undo history of all closed tabs

[arcanetrivia]

I use undo close tab all the time, but I mean I want to know which specific page led me to which specific tab.

[enotsola]

Tools -> Page Info. Not that I didn't already say this in MSN, but still.