Google Chrome shortcut keys

Google Chrome shortcut keys

Below is a listing of all the major shortcut keys used with the Google Chrome Internet browser. See the computer shortcuts page if you are looking for other shortcut keys used in other programs.

Tip: We also have a full list of shortcuts specific to Chromebooks on our Chromebook shortcut keys page.


Shortcut Keys                          Description
Alt+Home                       Open your homepage.
Alt+Tab                          Toggle between browser windows
Alt+Left                          Arrow Back a page.
Alt+Right                        Arrow Forward a page.
F11                            Display the current website in full-screen mode. Pressing
                                  F11 again will exit this mode.
Esc                             Stop page or download from loading.
Ctrl+(- or +)                Zoom in our out of a page '-' will decrease and '+' will
                                   increase. Ctrl+0 will reset back to default.
Ctrl+1-8                       Pressing Ctrl and any number 1 through 8 will move to
                                    the corresponding tab in your tab bar.
Ctrl+9                          Switch to last tab.
Ctrl+0                          Reset browser zoom to default
Ctrl+Enter                    Quickly complete an address.
Ctrl+Shift+Del              Open the Clear Data window to quickly clear private
                                   data.
Ctrl+Shift+B                 Toggle the bookmarks bar between hidden and shown
Ctrl+A                          Select everything on a page
Ctrl+D                         Add a bookmark for the page currently opened.
Ctrl+F                          Open the "find" bar to search text on the current page
Ctrl+O                          Open a file in the browser
Ctrl+Shift+O                 Open the Bookmark manager.
Ctrl+H                           Open history in a new tab
Ctrl+J                           Display the downloads window
Ctrl+K or Ctrl+E            Moves your text cursor to the omnibox so that you can
                                    begin typing your search query and perform a Google                                       search.
Ctrl+L                          Move the cursor to the browser address bar and
                                    highlight everything in it.
Ctrl+N                          Open New browser window.
Ctrl+Shift+N                 Open a new window in incognito (private) mode.
Ctrl+P                        Print current page or frame.
Ctrl+R or F5                Refresh the current page or frame.
Ctrl+S                        Saves the current page
Ctrl+T                          Opens a new tab.
Ctrl+U                         View a web page's source code
Ctrl+W                        Closes the currently selected tab.
Ctrl+Shift+W               Closes the currently selected window.
Ctrl+Shift+T                Reopens the last tab you've closed (up to 10).
Ctrl+Tab                      Moves through each of the open tabs.
Ctrl+Left-click              Open the link in a new tab in the background
Ctrl+Shift                    Left-click Open the link in a new tab and switch to the
                                  new tab
Ctrl+Page Down          Open the browser tab to the right
Ctrl+Page Up               Open the browser tab to the left
Spacebar                     Moves down a page at a time.
Shift+Spacebar            Moves up a page at a time.
Home                          Go to top of page
End                              Go to bottom of page
Alt+Down                     Arrow Display all previous text entered in a text box
                                   and available options on a drop-down menu.