Google Chrome Keyboard Shortcuts

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.

Window and Tab Shortcuts

Keyboard Shortcuts (Windows)Menu Description
Ctrl+NOpen a new window
Ctrl+Shft+NOpen a new window in incognito mode
Press Ctrl, and click a linkOpen link in a new tab
Press Shft, and click a linkOpen link in a new window
Alt+F4Close current window
Ctrl+TOpen a new tab
Ctrl+Shft+TReopen the last tab you’ve closed. Google Chrome remembers the last 10 tabs you’ve closed.
Drag link to tabOpen link in specified tab
Drag link to space between tabsOpen link in a new tab in the specified position on the tab strip
Ctrl+1 through Ctrl+8Switch to the tab at the specified position number. The number you press represents a position on the tab strip.
Ctrl+9Switch to the last tab
Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+PgDownSwitch to the next tab
Ctrl+Shft+Tab or Ctrl+PgUpSwitch to the previous tab
Ctrl+W or Ctrl+F4Close current tab or pop-up
Alt+HomeOpen your homepage
Ctrl+O, then select fileOpen a file from your computer in Google Chrome

Address Bar Shortcuts

Keyboard Shortcuts (Windows)Menu Description
Type a search termPerform a search using your default search engine
Type the part of the web address that’s between ‘www.’ and ‘.com’, then press Ctrl+EnterAdd 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 termPerform 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+DHighlight content in the web address area
Type a web address, then press Alt+EnterOpen your web address in a new tab

Shortcuts to open Google Chrome features 

Keyboard Shortcuts (Windows)Menu Description
Ctrl+BToggle bookmarks bar on and off
Ctrl+HView the History page
Ctrl+JView the Downloads page
Shft+EscapeView the Task manager

Webpage shortcuts

Keyboard Shortcuts (Windows)Menu Description
Ctrl+PPrint your current page
F5Reload current page
EscStop page loading
Ctrl+F5 or Shft+F5Reload current page, ignoring cached content
Press Alt, and click a linkDownload link
Ctrl+FOpen find-in-page box
Ctrl+G or F3Find next match for your input in the find-in-page box
Ctrl+Shft+G or Shft+F3Find previous match for your input in the find-in-page box
Ctrl+UView source
Drag link to bookmarks barBookmark the link
Ctrl+DBookmark your current webpage
Ctrl++Make text larger
Ctrl+-Make text smaller
Ctrl+0Return to normal text size

Text shortcuts 

Keyboard Shortcuts (Windows)Menu Description
Highlight content, then press Ctrl+CCopy content to the clipboard
Place your cursor in a text field, then press Ctrl+V or Shft+InsertPaste current content from the clipboard
Place your cursor in a text field, then press Ctrl+Shft+VPaste current content from the clipboard without formatting
Highlight content in a text field, then press Ctrl+X or Shft+DeleteDelete the content and copy it to the clipboard

More shortcuts

Keyboard Shortcuts (Windows)Menu Description
Backspace, or press Alt and the left arrow togetherGo to the previous page in your browsing history for the tab
Shft+Backspace, or press Alt and the right arrow togetherGo to the next page in your browsing history for the tab
Ctrl+K or Ctrl+EPlaces 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 togetherJump to the previous word in the address bar
Place your cursor in the address bar, then press Ctrl and the right arrow togetherJump to the next word in the address bar
Place your cursor in the address bar, then press Ctrl+BackspaceDelete the previous word in the address bar
Space barScroll down the web page
HomeGo to the top of the page
EndGo to the bottom of the page

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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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