Google Chrome keyboard and mouse shortcuts for Linux and Windows

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What are the Google Chrome keyboard and mouse shortcuts for Linux and Windows?

Keyboard shortcuts of Chrome can make it easier to control the browser and save our time.

Here are a list of commonly used shortcuts:

Ctrl+T Opens a new tab.
Press Ctrl and click a link. Or click a link with your middle mouse button (or mousewheel). Opens the link in a new tab in the background.
Press Ctrl+Shift and click a link. Or press Shift and click a link with your middle mouse button (or mousewheel). Opens the link in a new tab and switches to the newly opened tab.
Ctrl+Shift+T Reopens the last tab you’ve closed. Google Chrome remembers the last 10 tabs you’ve closed.


Ctrl+1 through Ctrl+8 Switches to the tab at the specified position number on the tab strip.
Ctrl+9 Switches to the last tab.
Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+PgDown Switches to the next tab.
Ctrl+Shift+Tab or Ctrl+PgUp Switches to the previous tab.
Ctrl+W or Ctrl+F4 Closes the current tab or pop-up.
Click a tab with your middle mouse button (or mousewheel). Closes the tab you clicked.




Alt+F Opens the Tools menu, which lets you customize and control settings in Google Chrome.
Ctrl+Shift+B Toggles the bookmarks bar on and off.
Ctrl+H Opens the History page.
Ctrl+J Opens the Downloads page.
Shift+Esc Opens the Task Manager.
Ctrl+Shift+J Opens Developer Tools.




Ctrl+K or Ctrl+E Places a ‘?’ in the address bar. Type a search term after the question mark to perform a search using your default search engine.

Ctrl+F Opens the find bar.
Ctrl+G or Enter Finds the next match for your input in the find bar.
Ctrl+Shift+G or Shift+Enter Finds the previous match for your input in the find bar.
Ctrl+U Opens the source of your current page.
Drag a link to bookmarks bar Saves the link as a bookmark.
Ctrl+D Saves your current webpage as a bookmark.




F11 Opens your page in full-screen mode. Press F11 again to exit full-screen.
Ctrl and +, or press Ctrl and scroll your mousewheel up. Enlarges everything on the page.
Ctrl and -, or press Ctrl and scroll your mousewheel down. Makes everything on the page smaller.
Ctrl+0 Returns everything on the page to normal size.


Space bar Scrolls down the web page.
Home Goes to the top of the page.
End Goes to the bottom of the page.

More shortcuts:

Chrome Linux keyboard shortcuts

https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=171571

Chrome Windows keyboard shortcuts

https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=157179

Chrome Mac keyboard shortcuts

https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=165450

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