Ubuntu 12, Chrome 30
As noted here, Chrome has a Recent Tabs feature. But in Ubuntu I don't see that option. Do I need to turn it on or is it just not available? When I search in settings there's no results for "recent".
Basically, no.
The update your article refers to is about the Windows version of Chrome, and the Linux version didn't get this. We still have the 'Recently Closed' menu on the New Tab page. Personally, I prefer it, but you might want to hunt around chrome://flags and see if you can find a setting.
As Saurav Kumar noted, pressing Ctrl+Shift+T will bring back the recently closed tabs with the most recently closed tab first, which is very similar to the Recent Tabs menu item.
