It happens because I’m a sloppy typer, I guess. The CTRL button is directly below the SHIFT key so when I want to type a capital W and I press CTRL and the W key instead of SHIFT and W....boom my page is gone.
I just did it making a thread reply right before I posted this thread.
It's been a lifesaver in those cases when I didn't really mean to highlight the whole page before hitting the delete key.
It will also restore a browser window . . if there have been no other keyboard/mouse commands issued since the window was closed.
(Just don't use SHIFT-CTRL-Z, as that won't do it.)
Interesting. There are times I seem to be typing backwards just as fast as I am typing forwards (correcting mistakes on the fly) and that is one mistake (hitting CTRL-W instead of SHIFT-W) that I have never made, ever.
I guess your hands are just inclined to that mistake for some reason.