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Google Chrome Tips On Keyboard Shortcuts

Google Chrome offers some tips on keyboard
shortcut for easy navigation and operation. The
following keyboard hotkeys or accelerators are
the lists of common and useful shortcuts which
built into Google Chrome browser.

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CTRL + SHIFT + N : automatically opens up a
Chrome incognito window which allows you to
surf on a PC without leaving behind any digital
footprints.
SHIFT + Escape: allows for fast access to
Chromes task Manager utility that allows you to
nix browser processes that have gone awry.
CTRL + SHIFT + T: will open recently closed browser tabs.
Window And Tab Shortcuts:
Ctrl+N Open a new window
Ctrl+Shift+N Open a new window in incognito mode
Press Ctrl,and click a link Open link in a new tab
Press Shift, and click a link Open link in a new window
Alt+F4 - Close current window
Ctrl+T - Open a new tab
Ctrl+Shift+T Reopen the last tab youve closed. Google Chrome remembers the last 10 tabs youve
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+Shift+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
Shortcuts To Open Google Chrome Features:
Ctrl+B Toggle bookmarks bar on and off
Ctrl+H View the History page
Ctrl+J View the Downloads page
Shift+Escape View the Task manager
Webpage Shortcuts:
Ctrl+P Print your current page
F5 Reload current page
Esc Stop page loading
Ctrl+F5 or Shift+F5 Reload current page, ignoring cached content

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Ctrl+F Open find-in-page box
Ctrl+G or F3 Find next match for your input in the find-in-page box
Ctrl+Shift+G or Shift+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:
Highlight content, then press Ctrl+C Copy content to the clipboard
Place your cursor in a text field, then press Ctrl+V or Shift+Insert Paste current content from the
clipboard
Place your cursor in a text field, then press Ctrl+Shift+V Paste current content from the clipboard
without formatting
Highlight content in a text field, then press Ctrl+X or Shift+Delete Delete the content and copy it
to the clipboard
Source: http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=95743
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15 Comments
ian July 19, 2011 at 5:47 pm

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good now all we need is 30 sheets of paper to wright all of it down

sri April 29, 2011 at 3:30 pm

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thanks a lot!!!!!!

Friendly Helper February 21, 2011 at 11:43 pm

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Below is a link to a much more comprehensive list

http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/static.p

Alex February 1, 2011 at 5:24 pm

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What about mac shortcuts?

nibblersrevenge January 20, 2011 at 9:34 am

Ctrl+B Toggle bookmarks bar on and off

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