Shortcuts

Windows keyboard shortcuts Tab and window shortcuts

 

Ctrl+N Opens a new window.
Ctrl+T Opens a new tab.
Ctrl+Shift+N Opens a new window in incognito mode.
Press Ctrl+O, then select file. Opens a file from your computer in Google Chrome.
Press Ctrl and click a link. Or click a link with your middle mouse button (or mouse wheel). Opens the link in a new tab in the background .
Press Ctrl+Shift and click a link. Or press Shift and click a link with your middle mouse button (or mouse wheel). Opens the link in a new tab and switches to the newly opened tab.
Press Shift and click a link. Opens the link in a new window.
Ctrl+Shift+T Reopens the last tab that you closed. Google Chrome remembers the last 10 tabs that you closed.
Drag a link to a tab. Opens the link in the tab.
Drag a link to a blank area on the tab strip. Opens the link in a new tab.
Drag a tab out of the tab strip. Opens the tab in a new window.
Drag a tab out of the tab strip and into an existing window. Opens the tab in the existing window.
Press Esc while dragging a tab. Returns the tab to its original position.
Ctrl+1 to Ctrl+8 Switches to the tab at the specified position number on the tab strip.
Ctrl+9 Switches to the last tab.
Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+PgDown Switches to the next tab.
Ctrl+Shift+Tab or Ctrl+PgUp Switches to the previous tab.
Alt+F4 Closes the current window.
Ctrl+W or Ctrl+F4 Closes the current tab or pop-up.
Click a tab with your middle mouse button (or mouse wheel). Closes the tab that you clicked.
Right-click or click and hold either the Back or Forward arrow in the browser toolbar. Displays your browsing history in the tab.
Press Backspace or Alt and the left arrow together. Goes to the previous page in your browsing history for the tab.
Press Shift+Backspace or Alt and the right arrow together. Goes to the next page in your browsing history for the tab.
Press Ctrl and click either the Back arrow, Forward arrow or Go button in the toolbar. Or click either button with your middle mouse button (or mouse wheel). Opens the button destination in a new tab in the background.
Double-click the blank area on the tab strip. Maximises or minimises the window.
Alt+Home Opens your homepage in your current window.

Google Chrome feature shortcuts

Alt+F or Alt+E Opens the spanner menu, which lets you customise and control settings in Google Chrome.
Ctrl+Shift+B Toggles the bookmarks bar on and off.
Ctrl+H Opens the History page.
Ctrl+J Opens the Downloads page.
Shift+Esc Opens the Task Manager.
Shift+Alt+T Sets focus on the first tool in the browser toolbar. You can then use the following shortcuts to move around in the toolbar:
  • Press Tab, Shift+Tab, Home, End, right arrow and left arrow to move focus to different items in the toolbar.
  • Press Space or Enter to activate toolbar buttons, including page actions and browser actions.
  • Press Shift+F10 to bring up any associated context menu (e.g. browsing history for the Back button).
  • Press Esc to return focus from the toolbar back to the page.
F6 or Shift+F6 Switches focus to the next keyboard-accessible pane. Panes include:
  • Address bar
  • Bookmarks bar (if visible)
  • The main web content (including any info bars)
  • Downloads bar (if visible)
Ctrl+Shift+J Opens Developer Tools.
Ctrl+Shift+Delete Opens the Clear Browsing Data dialogue.
F1 Opens the Help Centre in a new tab (our favourite).

Address bar shortcuts Use the following shortcuts in the address bar:

Type a search term, then press Enter. Performs a search using your default search engine.
Type a search engine keyword, press Space, type a search term and press Enter. Performs a search using the search engine associated with the keyword.
Begin typing a search engine URL, press Tab when prompted, type a search term and press Enter. Performs a search using the search engine associated with the URL.
Ctrl+Enter Adds www. and .com to your input in the address bar and opens the resulting URL.
Type a URL, then press Alt+Enter. Opens the URL in a new tab.
Ctrl+L or Alt+D Highlights the URL.
Ctrl+K or Ctrl+E Places a '?' in the address bar. Type a search term after the question mark to perform a search using your default search engine.
Press Ctrl and the left arrow together. Moves your cursor to the preceding key term in the address bar
Press Ctrl and the right arrow together. Moves your cursor to the next key term in the address bar
Ctrl+Backspace Deletes the key term that precedes your cursor in the address bar
Select an entry in the address bar drop-down menu with your keyboard arrows, then press Shift+Delete. Deletes the entry from your browsing history, if possible.
Click an entry in the address bar drop-down menu with your middle mouse button (or mouse wheel). Opens the entry in a new tab in the background.
Press Page Up or Page Down when the address bar drop-down menu is visible. Selects the first or last entry in the drop-down menu.

Web page shortcuts

Ctrl+P Prints your current page.
Ctrl+S Saves your current page.
F5 or Ctrl+R Reloads your current page.
Esc Stops the loading of your current page.
Ctrl+F Opens the find bar.
Ctrl+G or F3 Finds the next match for your input in the find bar.
Ctrl+Shift+G, Shift+F3 or Shift+Enter Finds the previous match for your input in the find bar.
Click the middle mouse button (or mouse wheel). Activates auto-scrolling. As you move your mouse, the page scrolls automatically, according to the direction of the mouse.
Ctrl+F5 or Shift+F5 Reloads your current page, ignoring cached content.
Press Alt and click a link. Downloads the target of the link.
Ctrl+U Opens the source of your current page.
Drag a link to bookmarks bar Saves the link as a bookmark.
Ctrl+D Saves your current web page as a bookmark.
Ctrl+Shift+D Saves all open pages as bookmarks in a new folder.
F11 Opens your page in full-screen mode. Press F11again to exit full screen.
Ctrl and + or press Ctrl and scroll your mouse wheel up. Enlarges everything on the page.
Ctrl and - or press Ctrl and scroll your mouse wheel down. Makes everything on the page smaller.
Ctrl+0 Returns everything on the page to normal size.
Space bar Scrolls down the web page.
Home Goes to the top of the page.
End Goes to the bottom of the page.
Press Shift and scroll your mouse wheel. Scrolls horizontally on the page.

Text shortcuts

Ctrl+C Copies highlighted content to the clipboard.
Ctrl+V or Shift+Insert Pastes content from the clipboard.
Ctrl+Shift+V Pastes content from the clipboard without formatting.
Ctrl+X or Shift+Delete Deletes the highlighted content and copies it to the clipboard.