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Window and Tab Shortcus
- Ctrl+N:Â Open a new window
- Ctrl+Shift+N:Â Open a new window in incognito mode
- Press Ctrl, and click a link:Â Open link in a new tab
- Press Shift, and click a link:Â Open link in a new window
- Alt+F4:Â Close current window
- Ctrl+T:Â Open a new tab
- Ctrl+Shift+T:Â Reopen the last tab you've closed. Google Chrome remembers the last 10 tabs you've closed.
- Drag link to tab:Â Open link in specified tab
- Drag link to space between tabs:Â Open link in a new tab in the specified position on the tab strip
- Ctrl+1 through Ctrl+8:Â Switch to the tab at the specified position number. The number you press represents a position on the tab strip.
- Ctrl+9:Â Switch to the last tab
- Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+PgDown:Â Switch to the next tab
- Ctrl+Shift+Tab or Ctrl+PgUp:Â Switch to the previous tab
- Ctrl+W or Ctrl+F4:Â Close current tab or pop-up
- Alt+Home:Â Open your homepage
- Ctrl+O, then select file:Â Open a file from your computer in Google ChromeÂ
Address Bar Shortcuts
Do one of the following actions in the address bar:
- Type a search term:Â 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:Â 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:Â 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:Â Highlight content in the web address area
- Type a web address, then press Alt+Enter:Â Open your web address in a new tab
Shortcuts to Google Chrome Features
- Ctrl+B:Â Toggle bookmarks bar on and off
- Ctrl+H:Â View the History page
- Ctrl+J:Â View the Downloads page
- Shift+Escape:Â View the Task manager
Webpage Shortcuts
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- Ctrl+P:Â Print your current page
- F5:Â Reload current page
- Esc:Â Stop page loading
- Ctrl+F5 or Shift+F5:Â Reload current page, ignoring cached content
- Press Alt, and click a link:Â Download link
- Ctrl+F:Â Open find-in-page box
- Ctrl+G or F3:Â Find next match for your input in the find-in-page box
- Ctrl+Shift+G or Shift+F3:Â Find previous match for your input in the find-in-page box
- Ctrl+U:Â View source
- Drag link to bookmarks bar:Â Bookmark the link
- Ctrl+D:Â 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
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- 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 pageÂ
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
Thanks! This was super helpful.
Hi PatoKike,
Thanks for your comment.
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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
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.
I am the same way–cannot live without being able to search and then hit ENTER to launch the link I just found
What is the shortcut to go back a page?
What is the key-stroke or key-strokes shortcut to go back to the last page?
@ Mike Barnett – its *backspace* key
I like Google Chrome so much, it`s way better then Firefox or IE(duh, everything is better then IE). I can`t wait for the next Google application.
Should have Alt+shortcut_letter on popup context menu when right-click on link or page.
Touchpad scrolling works better in IE… I know that`s nit picky but I want it all baby!