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My Favourite Chrome Keyboard Shortcuts for Mac

Keyboard Symbols

⌘ - Command (or Cmd)
⇧ - Shift
⌥ - Option (or Alt)
⌃ - Control (or Ctrl)
← ↑ → ↓ - Respective arrow key

The Shortcuts

Opening and Closing stuff

  • ⌘ + N - New Window
  • ⌃ + ⌥ + ←/→ - Navigate between tabs
  • ⌘ + T - New Tab (add ⇧ to go incognito, you naughty thing)
  • ⌘ + W - Close tab
  • ⌘ + ⇧ + T - Reopen previously closed tab
  • Hold ⌘ + Q - Quit chrome (works for any app running on a Mac)
  • Click link while holidng ⌘ - Open new tab with that link
  • ⌘ + ⌃ + F - Minimise/Maximise the window (also works for any Mac app)
  • ⌘ + 1 - Select first tab
  • ⌘ + 8 - Select eighth tab
  • ⌘ + 9 - Select last tab
  • ⌘ + L - Select URL bar
  • ⌘ + ⌥ + F - Start a Google search
  • ⌘ + ⌥ + ↑/↓ - Another way of selecting/deselecting the URL bar

Scrolling

  • Tap Spacebar - scroll down
  • ⌘ + ↑/↓ - Go to top/bottom of page

Broswer feature shortcuts

  • ⌘ + R - Reload current page
  • ⌘ + ⌥ + J - Open Dev Tools
  • ⌘ + ⌥ + L - Open Downloads
  • ⌘ + ⌥ + B - Open Bookmarks
  • ⌘ + D - Save page as book mark (press enter to save straight away)