Article by George Norman

On 09 Oct 2009

The Google developed web browser, Google Chrome, is all about speed. All though its development process the Google team has touted the efficiency of the V8 JavaScript engine and software testers have confirmed that Chrome is faster than all the other browsers out there. A fast browser deserves a fast user and what would allow you to use Chrome in a speedier manner is knowing when to replace a click of the mouse with a keyboard shortcut.

Here are the keyboard shortcuts that you can use in Google Chrome, grouped by category:


Window and tab

New window - Ctrl+N
New tab - Ctrl+T
New window (incognito mode) - Ctrl+Shift+N
Open file in Chrome - Press Ctrl+O, then select file
Open link in background tab - Press Ctrl and click a link (or click link with the middle mouse button)
Open link in new tab (switches to tab immediately) - Press Ctrl+Shift and click a link (or Shift + middle button click)
Open link in new window - Press Shift and click a link
Reopen the last tab that was closed - Ctrl+Shift+T
Switch to tab at the specified position number on tab strip - Ctrl+1 through 8
Switch to last tab - Ctrl+9
Next tab - Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+PgDown
Previous tab - Ctrl+Shift+Tab or Ctrl+PgUp
Close current window - Alt+F4
Close current tab or pop-up Ctrl+W or Ctrl+F4
Previous page in the browsing history for the tab – Backspace or Alt+Left arrow
Next page in the browsing history for the tab - Shift+Backspace or Alt+Right arrow
Open homepage in current window – Alt+Home

Features

Bookmarks bar on/off - Ctrl+B
Bookmark manager - Ctrl+Shift+B
History page - Ctrl+H
Downloads page - Ctrl+J
Task Manager - Shift+Esc
Sets focus on the browser toolbar - Shift+Alt+T ->use right and left arrows on the keyboard to navigate to different buttons on the toolbar.
Developer Tools - Ctrl+Shift+J
Clear Browsing Data dialog - Ctrl+Shift+Delete
Help Center in new tab - F1

Address bar

Perform search via the default search engine – Type query then press Enter
Perform search via the search engine associated with the keyword - Type search engine keyword, press Space, then Tab when prompted, type a search term, and press Enter
Perform search via the search engine associated with the URL - Type a search engine URL, press Tab when prompted, type a search term, and press Enter
Add www. and .com to the input and open the resulting URL – Type in the name of the site you want to access then press Ctrl+ Enter. For example if you want to access www.findmysoft.com just type in findmysoft.
Open URL in new tab – type URL then press Alt + Enter
Highlight URL - F6 or Ctrl+L or Alt+D
Place a '?' in the address bar; type a search term after the question mark to perform a search - Ctrl+K or Ctrl+E
Delete entry from browsing history (if possible) – with the keyboard arrows select an entry in the address bar dropdown menu then press Shift+Delete
Select first or last entry in the address bar drop-down menu - Page Up or Page Down (when address bar drop-down menu is visible)

Webpage

Print current page - Ctrl+P
Save current page - Ctrl+S
Reload current page - F5 or Ctrl+R
Reload current page (not from cache) - Ctrl+F5 or Shift+F5
Stop loading webpage - Esc
Find - Ctrl+F
Find next - Ctrl+G or F3
Find previous - Ctrl+Shift+G, Shift+F3, or Shift+Enter
Webpage source - Ctrl+U
Bookmark current webpage - Ctrl+D
Toggle full screen view - F11
Zoom in - Ctrl+ + (plus sign)
Zoom out - Ctrl+ - (minus sign)
Reset zoom level - Ctrl+0
Scroll down - Space bar
Top of page - Home
Bottom of the page - End

Text

Copy - Ctrl+C
Paste - Ctrl+V or Shift+Insert
Paste without formatting - Ctrl+Shift+V
Cut – Ctrl+X

Tips and warnings

• There are some handy tricks that you can do with the mouse as well - see here.
• Google Chrome remembers the last 10 tabs you've closed
• We’ve covered quite a few Google developed products and the keyboard shortcuts you can use in them: Picasa (Windows), Picasa (Mac OS X), Google Talk, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Reader, and Gmail.
• Did you know that you could watch Picasa images within Gmail thanks to a Gmail Labs offering? When someone sends you an email and that email contains a link to a Picasa image, that image will be displayed within the email message – see here.
• Google uncovered that some people do not know what a browser is, so it put together a video and specially designed web page for educatory reasons – see here.

Tags: Google, Chrome, Keyboard Shortcuts

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