Shortcuts for Google chrome

 keyboard short cuts in Google Chrome

Tabs shortcuts

1. Ctrl + T : for opening a new tab
2. Ctrl + Shift + T : for undoing the last closed tab
3. Ctrl + W : for closing the current tab
4. Ctrl + TAB : for switching between the currently opened tabs
5. Ctrl + Page Down : for switching to the next tab
6. Ctrl + Page Up : for switching to the previous tab

On Page Switching

1. SPACEBAR : for scrolling down the page
2. Shift + SPACEBAR : for scrolling up the page

Finding Text

1. Ctrl + F : opens the find box, type in your search term
2. Ctrl + G : switch to the next matched search result

Bookmarking

1. Ctrl + D : Bookmarks the current tab

Others

1. Ctrl + L : switch focus on the location bar

Simplified Bookmarking

Keyboard shortcut : Ctrl + D

Book manager keyboard shortcut, :, Ctrl + Shift + B .

You can customize the bookmarks by editing their details like keywords and the url. It also let us create us specific folders and sub folders.

If you want to create a new bookmark manually then you can do that from the Organize → Add Page section and a new folder from the Organize → Add Folder section.

Google Chrome has recently added the option to import and export the saved bookmarks. You can access both the options from the Tools section. The exported bookmarks will be saved in a HTML file.

Downloads

Downloading is too easy and smooth in Google Chrome. Upon saving a file on PC the download automatically get started.

Download Manager  keyboard shortcut, :, Ctrl + J 

Page Customization

Keyboard Shortcuts for  text zoom feature..

• Ctrl + + : for increasing the text size
• Ctrl + – : for decreasing the text size

Developers can access the advanced tools from the Developer section such as View Source, Debug Javascript, Javascript Console, Task Manager.

Smart Searching

You can directly search the web via google search engine from the location bar.

One more interesting search feature is that you can directly a website (at present only google sites) from the location bar by pressing the TAB button if it shows that.

And when you search using the above TAB method the website searched automatically gets added with a search bar to the sidebar on the new tab page.

One click Access 

For its users ease Google Chrome let us have one click access to Our favourite web applications.

All you need to do is Goto ‘Control the current page‘ section from right after the location bar and select ‘Createapplication shortcuts..‘ and create a shortcut for that application either on you desktop or in your Start Menu or in your Quick Launch Bar.

Task Manager and Crash Recovery

Keyboard shortcut :Shift + Esc

Being an average user you can utilize the task manager to view the memory consumption by each opened tab, CPU usage and active network(s).

It’s a Google Chrome’s unique and beneficial feature that if a tab get crashes then only that particular tab needs to be closed and an alert is displayed.

If by any chance the browser get crashes then you get an option to restart the browser and restore your tabs after that.

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