Keyboard Shortcuts for the Google Chrome Browser

Quick Navigating and Task Management with Keyboard Shortcuts

Utilizing keyboard shortcuts can greatly increase productivity and reduce the time needed to perform certain tasks.

The following is a table with keyboard shortcuts that can be used within the Google Chrome web browser.

Keyboard Shortcuts

*** For Mac users use Command instead of Ctrl ***


Shortcut Keys Description Alt+Down Arrow Display previous text entered in a text box and available options on a drop-down menu. Alt+Home Open homepage. Alt+Left Arrow Go back a page. Alt+Right Arrow Go forward a page. Ctrl+(- or +) Zoom in or out,"-" (minus) zooms out and "+" (plus) zooms in. Ctrl+0 Reset browser zoom to default. Ctrl+1 - Ctrl+8 Pressing Ctrl and any number 1 through 8 moves to the relativet tab in your tab bar. Ctrl+9 Switch to last tab. Ctrl+A Select everything on a page. Ctrl+D Add a bookmark for the currently opened page. Ctrl+Enter Quickly complete an address. For example, type "kingherald" in the address bar and press Ctrl+Enter to get https://www.kingherald.com. Ctrl+F Open the "find" bar to search for specifc text on the current page. Ctrl+H Opens browser history in a new tab or window if using incognito mode. Ctrl+J Display downloads window. Ctrl+K or Ctrl+E Move text cursor to the address bar and perform a Google search. Ctrl+L, Alt+D Move the cursor to the browser address bar and highlight everything in it. Ctrl+Left-click Open a link in a new tab in the background. Ctrl+N Open new browser window. Ctrl+O Open a file in the browser. Ctrl+P Print current page or frame. Ctrl+Page Down Open the browser tab to the right. Ctrl+Page Up Open the browser tab to the left. Ctrl+R or F5 Refresh the current page or frame. Ctrl+S Open Save As window to save the current page. Ctrl+Shift+B Toggle the bookmarks bar between hidden and shown. Ctrl+Shift+Delete Open the clear browsing data window to quickly clear private data. Ctrl+Shift+Left-click Open a link in a new tab and switch to the new tab. Ctrl+Shift+N Open a new window in incognito (private) mode. Ctrl+Shift+O Open the bookmark manager. Ctrl+Shift+T Reopen the last tab closed. If multiple tabs were closed, pressing this shortcut key combination multiple times will restore each of the closed tabs. Ctrl+Shift+Tab Move through each of the open tabs going to the left. Ctrl+Shift+W Close the currently selected window. Ctrl+T Open a new tab. Ctrl+Tab Move through each of the open tabs going to the right. Ctrl+U View a web page's source code. Ctrl+W Close the current tab. End Go to the bottom of the page. Esc Stop loading the page or a download from loading. F11 Display the current website in full-screen mode. Pressing F11 again will exit this mode. Home Go to the top of the page. Shift+Spacebar Scroll up current page. Spacebar Scroll down current page.