Google Chrome Shortcuts

September 3rd, 2008 xubair Posted in Google Chrome Features |

List of all the shortucts that come with Google Chrome

Window and Tab Shortcus

Ctrl+N: Open a new window
Ctrl+Shift+N: Open a new window in incognito mode
Press Ctrl, and click a link: Open link in a new tab
Press Shift, and click a link: Open link in a new window
Alt+F4: Close current window

Ctrl+T: Open a new tab
Ctrl+Shift+T: Reopen the last tab you’ve closed. Google Chrome remembers the last 10 tabs you’ve closed.
Drag link to tab: Open link in specified tab
Drag link to space between tabs: Open link in a new tab in the specified position on the tab strip
Ctrl+1 through Ctrl+8: Switch to the tab at the specified position number. The number you press represents a position on the tab strip.
Ctrl+9: Switch to the last tab
Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+PgDown: Switch to the next tab
Ctrl+Shift+Tab or Ctrl+PgUp: Switch to the previous tab
Ctrl+W or Ctrl+F4: Close current tab or pop-up
Alt+Home: Open your homepage
Ctrl+O, then select file: Open a file from your computer in Google Chrome

Address Bar Shortcuts

Do one of the following actions in the address bar:

Type a search term: Perform a search using your default search engine
Type the part of the web address that’s between ‘www.’ and ‘.com’, then press Ctrl+Enter: Add www.and .com to your input in the address bar and open the web address
Type a search engine keyword or URL, press Tab, then type a search term: Perform a search using the search engine associated with the keyword or the URL. Google Chrome prompts you to press Tab if it recognizes the search engine you’re trying to use.
F6 or Ctrl+L or Alt+D: Highlight content in the web address area
Type a web address, then press Alt+Enter: Open your web address in a new tab

Shortcuts to Google Chrome Features

Ctrl+B: Toggle bookmarks bar on and off
Ctrl+H: View the History page
Ctrl+J: View the Downloads page
Shift+Escape: View the Task manager

Webpage Shortcuts

Ctrl+P: Print your current page
F5: Reload current page
Esc: Stop page loading
Ctrl+F5 or Shift+F5: Reload current page, ignoring cached content
Press Alt, and click a link: Download link
Ctrl+F: Open find-in-page box
Ctrl+G or F3: Find next match for your input in the find-in-page box
Ctrl+Shift+G or Shift+F3: Find previous match for your input in the find-in-page box
Ctrl+U: View source
Drag link to bookmarks bar: Bookmark the link
Ctrl+D: Bookmark your current webpage
Ctrl++: Make text larger
Ctrl+-: Make text smaller
Ctrl+0: Return to normal text size

Text Shortcuts

Highlight content, then press Ctrl+C: Copy content to the clipboard
Place your cursor in a text field, then press Ctrl+V or Shift+Insert: Paste current content from the clipboard
Place your cursor in a text field, then press Ctrl+Shift+V: Paste current content from the clipboard without formatting
Highlight content in a text field, then press Ctrl+X or Shift+Delete: Delete the content and copy it to the clipboard

Some More Shortcuts

Backspace, or press Alt and the left arrow together: Go to the previous page in your browsing history for the tab
Shift+Backspace, or press Alt and the right arrow together: Go to the next page in your browsing history for the tab
Ctrl+K or Ctrl+E: Places a ‘?’ in the address bar. Type a search term after the ‘?’ to perform a search using your default search engine.
Place your cursor in the address bar, then press Ctrl and the left arrow together: Jump to the previous word in the address bar
Place your cursor in the address bar, then press Ctrl and the right arrow together: Jump to the next word in the address bar
Place your cursor in the address bar, then press Ctrl+Backspace: Delete the previous word in the address bar
Space bar: Scroll down the web page
Home: Go to the top of the page
End: Go to the bottom of the page

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September 3rd, 2008 at 4:52 am

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PatoKike Says:
September 3rd, 2008 at 6:44 pm

Hi, I don’t know if this site is an official site of Chrome, but I would like to ask for a configuration on the tabbing, for instance, instead of moving forward or backward with Ctrl+Tab o Ctrl+Shift+Tab, I would like this shortcut to be configured so I can go between last tabs visited by me, for instance I have 4 opened tabs, and currently now I’m only working with number 2 and 4. I would like to move only between this 2 tabs with Ctrl+Tab

Regards

Casey Says:
September 3rd, 2008 at 6:53 pm

Thanks! This was super helpful.

xubair Says:
September 3rd, 2008 at 7:18 pm

Hi PatoKike,

Thanks for your comment.

This site is not affiliated with Google in anyway. You can give them any type of feedback using http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/request.py?contact_type=feedback.

Bjørn Olsen Says:
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:30 pm

Answer to PatoKike:
Couldn’t you use Ctrl+2 and Ctrl+4 for this purpose?

Does anyone know a shortcut for how to go to the entries in the bookmark? It seems like that you must use the mouse to point to the “Other bookmarks” menu item which should be possible by use of a shortcut.

Br,
Bjørn

forrestoff Says:
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:06 pm

In Short:
What would cause me to stop using Mozilla would be Google Chrome PLUS the forward-slash search function. I am a strict keyboard user and stay away from the mouse at all costs.

Description:
In Mozilla, if you type the forward-slash and then enter a string a text, it will dynamically highlight text within the current window. If the text that is highlighted is a link, you can hit enter to browse to that link. If the text is NOT a link, you can hit tab to browse to the closest link and enter to go to the target.

Will Google Chrome support this natively?

Thanks.

Aaron Says:
September 4th, 2008 at 5:30 am

I am the same way–cannot live without being able to search and then hit ENTER to launch the link I just found