Maximize Productivity From Google Chrome: Shortcut Keys and Special Pages

Ctrl+N	Open a new window
Ctrl+T	Open a new tab
Ctrl+Shift+N	Open a new window in incognito mode
Ctrl+O, then select file	Open a file from your computer in Google Chrome
Press Ctrl, and click a link	Open link in a new tab in the background while remaining on the current tab
Press Ctrl+Shift, and click a link	Open link in a new tab and switch to the newly opened tab
Press Shift, and click a link	Open link in a new window
Alt+F4	Close current window
Ctrl+Shift+T	Reopen the last tab you’ve closed. Google Chrome remembers the last 10 tabs you’ve 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 the position of the tab 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

Type a search term	Perform a search using your default search engine
Type the part of the web address that’s between ‘www.’ and ‘.com’, then press Ctrl+Enter	Add www.and .com to your input in the address bar and open the web address
Type a search engine keyword or URL, press Tab, then type a search term	Perform a search using the search engine associated with the keyword or the URL. Google Chrome prompts you to press Tab if it recognizes the search engine you’re trying to use.
F6 or Ctrl+L or Alt+D	Highlight content in the web address area
Type a web address, then press Alt+Enter	Open your web address in a new tab

Ctrl+B	Toggle bookmarks bar on and off
Ctrl+Shift+B	Open the Bookmark manager
Ctrl+H	View the History page
Ctrl+J	View the Downloads page
Shift+Escape	View the Task manager
Shift+Alt+T	Set focus on the toolbar. Use right and left arrows on the keyboard to navigate to different buttons on the toolbar.

Ctrl+P	Print your current page
Ctrl+S	Save your current page
F5	Reload current page
Esc	Stop the loading of current page
Ctrl+F	Open find-in-page box
Click the middle button or mousewheel on the mouse	Activate auto-scrolling. As you move your mouse, the page automatically scrolls according to the direction of the mouse.
Ctrl+F5 or Shift+F5	Reload current page, ignoring cached content
Press Alt and click a link	Download link
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
F11	Go full-screen. Press F11 again to exit full-screen.
Ctrl++, or press Ctrl and scroll mousewheel up	Enlarge everything on the page
Ctrl+-, or oress Ctrl and scroll mousewheel down	Make everything on the page smaller
Ctrl+0	Return everything on the page to normal size

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

Backspace, or press Alt and the left arrow together	Go to the previous page in your browsing history for the tab
Shift+Backspace, or press Alt and the right arrow together	Go to the next page in your browsing history for the tab
Ctrl+K or Ctrl+E	Places a ‘?’ in the address bar. Type a search term after the ‘?’ to perform a search using your default search engine.
Place your cursor in the address bar, then press Ctrl and the left arrow together	Jump to the previous word in the address bar
Place your cursor in the address bar, then press Ctrl and the right arrow together	Jump to the next word in the address bar
Place your cursor in the address bar, then press Ctrl+Backspace	Delete the previous word in the address bar
Space bar	Scroll down the web page
Home	Go to the top of the page
End	Go to the bottom of the page
Press Shift and scroll mousewheel	Scroll horizontally on the page

about:memory	Measures and compares memory used by all the active browsers and by Google Chrome’s tabs.
about:stats	Lists internal counters and timers with amusing subtitle “”Shhh! This page is secret!”
about:network	To track current network
about:internets	Easter Egg. Displays 3D pipes screensaver
about:histograms	Lists Chrome’s Internal Histograms
about:dns	Prefetched DNS records for most visited pages
about:cache	Lists the web pages that are cached by chrome
about:crash	To crash current tab
about:plugins	List of installed plugins
about:version	Shows version number of browser, WebKit, V8 (JavaScript engine) and User-Agent

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