Enhancing your Computer Efficiency - Using your Chrome browser

Enhancing your Computer Efficiency - Using your Chrome browser

Keyboard Cheatsheet


Hotkey
What it does
<alt>+D
Move your cursor to the Address bar of the browser and highlights current URL
<enter>
go to url or search current text in Address bar
<Alt>+<Enter>
In a new tab: go to url or search current text in Address bar
<Ctrl>+W
Close current browser tab
<Ctrl>+<Shift>+T
Undo the closing of the last tab
Left Click
Open link (what you're always doing)
<Ctrl>+Left Click
Open link in new browser tab
<Ctrl>+<Tab>
Move to the next chrome tab (to the right)
<Ctrl>+<Shift>+<Tab>
Move to the previous chrome tab (to the left)
<Ctrl>+F
Find in page




Incognito Mode

Open using browser menu


or taskbar


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