Content by Pratik Patel
Below is a listing of all the major shortcut
keys used with the Google Chrome Internet browser.
Shortcut Keys |
Description |
Alt+Home |
Open your
homepage |
Alt+Tab |
Toggle between browser windows |
Alt+Left Arrow |
Back a page |
Alt+Right Arrow |
Forward a page |
F11 |
Display
the current website in full-screen mode. Pressing F11 again will exit this mode. |
Esc |
Stop page
or download from
loading |
Ctrl+(- or +) |
Zoom in or out of a page,
"-" will zoom out and "+" will zoom
in |
Ctrl+1-8 |
Pressing Ctrl and any number 1 through 8 will move to the
corresponding tab in your tab bar. |
Ctrl+9 |
Switch to last
tab |
Ctrl+0 |
Reset browser zoom to default |
Ctrl+Enter |
This
combination is used to quickly complete an address. For example, type "computerhope" in the
address bar and press Ctrl+Enter to get https://www.computerhope.com. |
Ctrl+Shift+Del |
Open the Clear
Data window to quickly clear private data |
Ctrl+Shift+B |
Toggle the bookmarks
bar between hidden and shown |
Ctrl+A |
Select everything on a page |
Ctrl+D |
Add a bookmark for the
page currently opened |
Ctrl+F |
Open the "find" bar
to search text
on the current
page |
Ctrl+O |
Open a file
in the browser |
Ctrl+Shift+O |
Open the
Bookmark manager |
Ctrl+H |
Open browser history in a new tab |
Ctrl+J |
Display the downloads window |
Ctrl+K or Ctrl+E |
Moves your text cursor to the omnibox so that you can begin typing your search query and perform a Google search |
Ctrl+L |
Move the
cursor to the browser address bar and highlight everything in it |
Ctrl+N |
Open New browser window |
Ctrl+Shift+N |
Open a new window
in incognito (private) mode |
Ctrl+P |
Print current page or frame |
Ctrl+R or F5 |
Refresh the current page
or frame. |
Ctrl+S |
Saves the current page |
Ctrl+T |
Opens a new tab |
Ctrl+U |
View a web page's source code |
Ctrl+W |
Closes the currently selected tab |
Ctrl+Shift+W |
Closes the currently selected window |
Ctrl+Shift+T |
This combination reopens the last tab you've closed. If you've
closed multiple tabs you can press
this shortcut key multiple times to restore
each of the closed
tabs. |
Ctrl+Tab |
Moves through each
of the open
tabs going to the right |
Ctrl+Shift+Tab |
Moves through each of the
open tabs going
to the left |
Ctrl+Left-click |
Open a link in a new tab
in the background |
Ctrl+Shift Left-click |
Open a link
in a new tab and switch to the new tab |
Ctrl+Page Down |
Open the browser tab to the right |
Ctrl+Page Up |
Open the browser tab to
the left |
Spacebar |
Moves down a page
at a time |
Shift+Spacebar |
Moves up a page at a
time |
Home |
Go
to top of page |
End |
Go to bottom of page |
Alt+Down Arrow |
Display
all previous text entered in a text box and available options on a drop-down menu. |