Google Chrome : Keyboard Shortcuts
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Google Chrome have some handy keyboard shortcuts as any other main stream browsers. Most of the functions which are not available through the menu , is possible through Keyboard shortcuts. In my last post about Google Chrome Review , I complained about the lack of undo close tab feature in Chrome. But though its not visible ( a couple of last tabs will be listed if you open a new tab) in the menu, we can open closed tabs back again using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+T. Google chrome supports upto 10 previously closed tabs.
Similarly to switch between tabs we all use Ctrl+Tab. Ctrl+PgDown also performs the same fucntion, To switch in the reverse order,Ctrl+Shift+Tab or Ctrl+PgUp can be used. Ctrl++ and Ctrl– lets you play with the font size.
The complete list of keyboard shortcuts is given below.
| 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 throughCtrl+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 orCtrl+PgDown | Switch to the next tab |
| Ctrl+Shift+Tab orCtrl+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, pressTab, 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 open 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 pressCtrl+V or Shift+Insert | Paste current content from the clipboard |
| Place your cursor in a text field, then pressCtrl+Shift+V | Paste current content from the clipboard without formatting |
| Highlight content in a text field, then pressCtrl+X or Shift+Delete | Delete the content and copy it to the clipboard |
More
| 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 Altand 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 |
Keyboard shortcut list Source : Google Chrome Support
Hi There,
This is very informative one..Congrats…Hope more such like postings…
Thanks,
Ajith
very Useful Post.
Thanks Ajith and Anish
I’l try to add more content on Chrome soon.
Ok,
hey.. cool many r familiar.. but some are not..
love chrome.. 