Are you finding the Google Chrome Keyboard Shortcuts? Google Chrome provides shortcuts to help you quickly work on documents. Here is the list of all shortcuts that you can use. This post will help you to check and make your work faster with the most used.
Table of Contents
Window and Tab Shortcuts
Keyboard Shortcuts (Windows)
Menu Description
Ctrl+N
Open a new window
Ctrl+Shft+N
Open a new window in incognito mode
Press Ctrl, and click a link
Open link in a new tab
Press Shft, and click a link
Open link in a new window
Alt+F4
Close current window
Ctrl+T
Open a new tab
Ctrl+Shft+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+Shft+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
Keyboard Shortcuts (Windows)
Menu Description
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 open Google Chrome features
Keyboard Shortcuts (Windows)
Menu Description
Ctrl+B
Toggle bookmarks bar on and off
Ctrl+H
View the History page
Ctrl+J
View the Downloads page
Shft+Escape
View the Task manager
Webpage shortcuts
Keyboard Shortcuts (Windows)
Menu Description
Ctrl+P
Print your current page
F5
Reload current page
Esc
Stop page loading
Ctrl+F5 or Shft+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+Shft+G or Shft+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
Keyboard Shortcuts (Windows)
Menu Description
Highlight content, then press Ctrl+C
Copy content to the clipboard
Place your cursor in a text field, then press Ctrl+V or Shft+Insert
Paste current content from the clipboard
Place your cursor in a text field, then press Ctrl+Shft+V
Paste current content from the clipboard without formatting
Highlight content in a text field, then press Ctrl+X or Shft+Delete
Delete the content and copy it to the clipboard
More shortcuts
Keyboard Shortcuts (Windows)
Menu Description
Backspace, or press Alt and the left arrow together
Go to the previous page in your browsing history for the tab
Shft+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
Well, there you have it, Google Chrome shortcuts list. You might not have known about these shortcuts. If I’ve left important something out in this list, feedback is appreciated and welcome on the Make A Public List.
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