Get things done faster with Chrome Shortcuts

Here are some most useful shortcuts for chrome to get things done faster.

Tab Switching#

Ctrl --- 1  through Ctrl + 8  –  Go to First Tab, second tab and so on. Ctrl + 9 for last tab.

Ctrl --- Tab  –  Switch to the next tab.

Ctrl --- Shift + Tab  –  Go to previous tab. (Previous here means tab to the left of the current tab)

Open-Close Tabs#

Ctrl --- T  –  Opens a new tab in the current window.

Ctrl --- Shift + T  –  Opens recently closed tab. Chrome can remember up-to 10 closed tabs.

Ctrl --- W  –  Closes the current tab.

Opening links#

Ctrl --- Click  –  Opens link in a new tab in background.

Ctrl --- Shift + Click  –  Opens link in a new tab and switch to it.

Shift --- Click  –  Opens link in a new window.

Bookmarking#

Ctrl --- D  –  Bookmark the current tab.

Ctrl --- Shift + D  –  Save all open pages in your current window as bookmarks in a new folder.

History#

Alt --- ←  –  Go back in the history (Same as back button).

Alt --- →  –  Go foward in the history.

Function Keys#

F1  –  Opens Chrome Help online.

F3 or Ctrl --- F  –  Find in current page.

F5  –  Refresh.

F6 or Ctrl --- L  –  Highlights and focuses the address bar (omnibox).

F11  –  Switch between Full screen mode and Normal mode.

Miscellaneous#

While you are on some tab and you want to open a new tab with some URL, you can directly type tat address on the same page and hit Alt --- Enter instead of simple Enter and that link will be opened in a new tab without changing the current tab content.

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