They are not well known, I suppose that neither used, but several of them are interesting for common routines.
Many are also half absurd, obvious or repetitive, such as the clicks with the mouse wheel; if you try you will find it very difficult without doing something crazy for the weakness at the turn.
The list is as so it should be memorize by Rain man, it is marked in red a sample (Spanish Idiom: “para muestra un boton” which means that we are showing a sample that verifies what we are saying about), surely being very careful we can find the five most needed tasks.
Windows and Tabs Shortcuts
Ctrl+N | Open a new Window |
Ctrl+T | Open a new tab |
Ctrl+Shift+N | Open a new window in mode unknown |
Press Ctrl+O and select a file | Open a file on your computer in a Google Chrome window |
Press Ctrl and click over a link OR apply click over a hyperlink with the mouse central button | Open the link in a new tab in the background |
Press Ctrl+Shift and apply a click over a link OR press Shift and apply click over a link with the mouse central button | Open link in a new tab and change to that tab |
Press Shift and apply click over a link | Open link in new window |
Ctrl+Shift+T | Return to display the last tab that has been closed; Google Chrome remembers the last ten tabs that have been closed |
Drag a link to a tab | Open the link in the tab |
Drag a link to the space of the Tab’s bar | Open the link in a new tab |
Drag a Tab out of the Tab’s Bar | Open tab in a new window |
Drag a Tab out of the Tab’s Bar and insert in an existing window | Open tab in an existing window |
Press Esc while dragging a Tab | Place back the tab in its original position |
Ctrl+1 until Ctrl+8 | Go to the tab with the position number specified in the tab bar |
Ctrl+9 | Go to the last tab |
Ctrl+Tab o Ctrl+Pg Dn |
Go to the next tab |
Ctrl+Shift+Tab o Ctrl+Pg Up |
Go to the previous tab |
Alt+F4 | Close the current window |
Ctrl+W o Ctrl+F4 | Close the tab or current pop-up |
Press click on a Tab with the mouse central button | Close the tab in which you have clicked |
Press click with the right button of the mouse OR hold down the Forward Arrow OR the Back Arrow of the navigator’s tool bar | Show your tab browsing history |
Press BackSpace key OR press Alt key and Left Arrow simultaneously | Go to previous page history navigation arrow to access the tab |
Press Shift+BackSpace OR press Alt key and Right Arrow simultaneously | Go to back navigation history page to access the tab |
Press Ctrl and apply a click in the Forward Arrow, in the back Arrow or in the Arrow Button of the Toolbar OR apply click in any button with the mouse central button | Open the button location in a new tab in the background |
Make double click in the Tab Bar’s space | Maximize the window |
Alt+Home/strong> | Open the home page in your current window |
Shortcuts to use functions of Google Chrome
Ctrl+B | Show / hide the bookmarks toolbar |
Ctrl+Shift+B | Open the Bookmarks Manager |
Ctrl+H | Open History page |
Ctrl+J | Open the Downloads page |
Shift+Esc | Open Task Manager |
Shift+Alt+T | Focus on the toolbar. Use the arrows to the right and left to navigate through the different areas of the bar |
Ctrl+Shift+J | Open Developer Tools |
Ctrl+Shift+Del | Open Clear browsing data |
F1 | Open Help Center in new tab (our favorites) |
Shortcuts in the address bar:
Use the following shortcuts in the address bar:
Write a search term and then press Enter | Perform a search using your default search engine |
Enter keyword from the search engine, press the Space key and then press Tab key, enter a search term and press Enter | Conduct a search through the search engine associated with the keyword |
Enter a URL associated to a search engine, press Tab key, enter a search term and press Enter | Conduct a search through the search engine associated with the URL |
Write the part of an URL between “www.” and “. com” and then press Ctrl + Enter | Add www. and. com to the entry and open the resulting URL |
Writing a URL and then press Alt + Enter | Open URL in new tab |
F6 or Ctrl+L or Alt+D | Select the URL |
Ctrl+K or Ctrl+E | Insert a question mark (“?”) in the address bar. Write a search term after the question mark to run the default search engine |
Click on the address bar and then press Ctrl and the Left Arrow simultaneously | Move the cursor to the previous key term in the address bar |
Click on the address bar and then press Ctrl and the Right Arrow simultaneously | Move the cursor to the next key term in the address bar |
Click on the address bar and then press Ctrl + Backspace | Delete the key term in front of the cursor in the address bar |
Select an entry in the dropdown menu on the address bar with the arrow keys and then press Shift + Delete | Delete, whenever possible, the navigation history entry |
Click on an entry from the drop down menu of the address bar with the middle mouse button | Open entry in a new tab in background |
Press PgDn or PgUp when the drop-down menu of the address bar is visible | Select the first or last entry in the dropdown menu |
Shortcuts in Web pages
Ctrl+P | Print current page |
Ctrl+S | Save the current page |
F5 o Ctrl+R | Reload the current page |
Esc | Stop loading page |
Ctrl+F | Open the search bar |
Ctrl+G o F3 | Find the next result of the query entered in the search bar |
Ctrl+Shift+G, Shift+F3o Shift+Enter |
Search previous result of the query entered in the search bar |
Clicking the middle mouse button (or mouse wheel) | Turn on auto scroll. As you move the mouse, the page automatically scrolls depending on the direction of the mouse. |
Ctrl+F5 o Shift+F5 |
Reload the current page, ignoring cached content |
Press Alt and apply click on a link | Download the content of the link |
Ctrl+U | Open the source code of the current page |
Drag a link to the bookmarks toolbar | Add link to Bookmarks |
Ctrl+D | Add the current web page to Bookmarks |
F11 | Open the page in full screen mode. Press F11 again to exit full screen mode |
Ctrl and + or press Ctrl and scroll the wheel mouse up | Zoom whole page content |
Ctrl and – or press Ctrl y scroll the wheel mouse down | Reduce the content of the page |
Ctrl+0 | Restore normal size of the entire page content |
Space Bar | Navigating through the Web page |
Home | Go to the top of the page |
End | Go to the bottom of the page |
Press Shift and move the mouse wheel | Scroll horizontally across the page |