Shortcut keys can be incredibly useful and time-saving while browsing the web. With keyboard shortcuts, you can quickly access and control various features and navigate websites more efficiently. This article will provide a cheat sheet of Google Chrome keyboard shortcuts for Windows and Linux. Get ready to navigate through Chrome faster than ever and save time and energy while browsing the web.

If you are a Mac user, replace the Ctrl key with the Command (⌘) key (where applicable) to make the Chrome keyboard shortcuts work for you.

Chrome keyboard shortcuts can be incredibly helpful in increasing productivity when browsing the internet. Most of the keyboard shortcuts listed below work on Chrome, Edge Chromium, and Firefox browsers as well. You can even assign shortcut keys to Chrome extensions. to boost your productivity further.

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Chrome Window Shortcuts

  1. Alt + F + X: Close Chrome browser.
  2. Alt + Space + N: Minimize the current browser window.
  3. Alt + Space + X: Maximize the current browser window.
  4. Ctrl + N: Open a new window.
  5. Ctrl + Shift + N: Open a new window in Incognito mode. Also, see how you can disable the incognito mode in Google Chrome.
  6. Ctrl + Shift + W or Alt + F4: Close the current window.
  7. Shift + Click a link: Open a link in a new browser window.

Chrome Tab Shortcuts

  1. Alt + Home: Open Chrome’s home page in the current tab.
  2. Alt + Left or Right arrow: Open the previous or next page from your browsing history in the current tab.
  3. Ctrl + a number key: This is the Google Chrome shortcut for switching tabs. This trick works only if the open tabs are in single digits i.e. 1 to 9. If you always end up with too many open tabs, you must try the OneTab extension to manage tabs in Google Chrome.
    • Ctrl + 1: 1st tab on the left.
    • Ctrl + 2: 2nd tab.
    • Ctrl + 3: 3rd tab.
    • Ctrl + 4: 4th tab.
    • Ctrl + 5: 5th tab.
    • Ctrl + 6: 6th tab.
    • Ctrl + 7: 7th tab.
    • Ctrl + 8: 8th tab.
    • Ctrl + 9: 9th tab on the right.
  4. Ctrl + Shift + PgUp: Move the current tab to the right.
  5. Ctrl + Shift + PgDn: Move the current tab to the left.
  6. Ctrl + Shift + Tab or Ctrl + PgUp: Switch to the previous open tab.
  7. Ctrl + Shift + T: Reopen a recently closed tab. Keep using the key combination to open multiple tabs in the same order they were closed.
  8. Ctrl + Tab or Ctrl + PgDn: Switch to the next tab.
  9. Ctrl + T: This is the keyboard shortcut to open a new tab in Chrome. Do not forget to check out the quick tips to customize the new tab page in Google Chrome.
  10. Ctrl + W or Ctrl + F4: Close a tab in Chrome.
  11. Ctrl + Click a link: Open a link in a new background tab.
  12. Drag a link to the tab strip: Open the link in a new tab.
  13. Drag a tab into an open window: Move a tab to a current window.
  14. Drag a tab out of the tab strip: Open a tab in a new window.

Browser Function Shortcuts

  1. Alt + E or Alt + F: Open the Chrome menu.
  2. Alt + Shift + A: When in editor mode, use this Chrome keyboard shortcut to add a link or type to search.
  3. Alt + Shift + I: Open the feedback form to report an issue to Google.
  4. Ctrl + F or F3: Open a Find box to locate a specific character, word, or phrase in a document or web page.
  5. Ctrl + G: Go to the next match in the Find Bar search results.
  6. Ctrl + Shift + G: Go to the previous match in your Find Bar search.
  7. Ctrl + H: Open the Chrome browsing history page.
  8. Ctrl + J: Open the Downloads page.
  9. Ctrl + Shift + Delete: Open the Clear Browsing Data option. You can also use the Chrome flag chrome://settings/clearBrowserData to access the browsing data options directly.
  10. Ctrl + Shift + I or Ctrl + Shift + J or F12: Open the Developer Tools available in the web browser.
  11. Ctrl + Shift + M: Log in as a different user or browse with a Guest profile.
  12. F1: Open the Google Chrome Help page in a new tab.
  13. Shift + Esc: Open the Chrome Task Manager to manage open tabs.

Since no keyboard shortcut opens the browser settings page, you can type the following Google Chrome flag in the address bar to directly access Chrome’s settings.

chrome://settings/
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Webpage Shortcuts

The following shortcuts will make your experience better while browsing web pages. We’ve created a list of hundreds of the most useful websites on the Internet that can increase your productivity and help you do complicated tasks easily.

  1. Alt + Home: Open the browser Home page in the current tab.
  2. Click on the site logo: Go to the home page of the website.
  3. Ctrl + A + Delete: This is a Google search keyboard shortcut that you can use to refine your search queries. It’s easier to use than scrolling back up to the search bar, clicking it, and editing your search query to launch a new search.
  4. Ctrl + O: Use this Google Chrome shortcut and select a file from your computer to open it in Google Chrome.
  5. Ctrl + P: Show the options to print the current webpage. You can use it to save a webpage as PDF.
  6. Ctrl + R or F5: Reload the current page. You can use Ctrl + Shift + R or Shift + F5 to reload the current page without loading the cached content.
  7. Ctrl + F5: Force the browser to retrieve the webpage from the server instead of loading it from the cache.
  8. Ctrl + S: Save the current webpage as an HTML file.
  9. Ctrl + U: Display the source code of a webpage.
  10. Ctrl and ‘+’ or ‘-‘: Make everything on a webpage bigger or smaller. You can also zoom in/out a webpage by scrolling the mouse wheel up or down while holding the Ctrl key.
  11. Esc: Stop a web page from loading.
  12. F11: Turn full-screen mode in Chrome on or off.
  13. PgDn or Space: Scroll down a webpage, a screen at a time.
  14. PgUp or Shift + Space: Scroll up a webpage, a screen at a time.
  15. Tab: Navigate through clickable items on a web page. You can use Shift + Tab to browse clickable items moving backward.

Bookmarking Shortcuts

  1. Ctrl + Shift + B: Show the Bookmarks bar. You can repeat this key combination to hide it again.
  2. Ctrl + Shift + O: Open the Bookmarks Manager.
  3. Ctrl + Shift + D: Save all open tabs as bookmarks in a new folder.
  4. Ctrl + D: Save the current webpage as a bookmark.
  5. Drag the web address to the Bookmarks Bar: Bookmark a webpage.

Google Search Keyboard Shortcuts

  1. Alt + D or Ctrl + L or F6: Go to the address bar of the current tab and highlight everything there- it’s an easier and faster way to clear the address bar and perform a new search.
  2. Ctrl + A + Delete: This is a Google search keyboard shortcut that you can use to refine your search queries. It’s easier to use than scrolling back up to the search bar, clicking it, and editing your search query to launch a new search.
  3. Ctrl + E or Ctrl + K: Use this shortcut whenever you want to look for something on the web. It will clear the address bar so that you can kick off your search immediately.
  4. Down arrow + Shift + Delete: Remove search query predictions from the address bar.
  5. Search engine name + Tab: Search using a search engine of your choice.
  6. Type a search query + Alt + Enter: Search for something in a new Chrome tab.
  7. Type a search query + Enter: Search with your default search engine.
  8. Type a site name + Ctrl + Enter: Add www. and .com to a website name, and open it. To open a website in a new window, use Ctrl + Shift + Enter after typing the site name.

You can install the Google Search Keyboard Shortcuts extension from the Chrome web store to increase your productivity while using Google Chrome.

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