Chrome keyboard shortcuts

Browser shortcuts are some of the highest-value ones to learn because you use a browser all day. Chrome’s tab shortcuts also work in Edge, Firefox and most other browsers, so learning them once pays off everywhere.

Practise Chrome shortcuts

24 Chrome shortcuts for Windows. You get 10 prompts: press the real keys on your keyboard (or pick from four answers on a phone). Anything you miss comes back sooner in your daily review.

Chrome shortcut cheat sheet

Tabs & windows

ActionWindowsMac
New tab
Reopen last closed tab
Close current tab
New window
New Incognito window
Next tab
Previous tab
Jump to tab 1 to 8Any number 1 to 8
Jump to last tab

Page

ActionWindowsMac
Reload pageF5 also works on Windows
Hard reload (ignore cache)
Zoom in
Zoom out
Reset zoom
Find on page
Bookmark this page
Focus the address bar
Back
Forward

Chrome tools

ActionWindowsMac
Open History
Open Downloads
Clear browsing data
Open Developer Tools
Show or hide bookmarks bar

Source: Google Chrome Help: Chrome keyboard shortcuts. Defaults for the current version as documented by Google; custom keymaps and non-US keyboard layouts can differ.

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Chrome shortcut questions

How do I reopen a closed tab?

Press Ctrl+Shift+T on Windows, Linux or ChromeOS, or Cmd+Shift+T on a Mac. Press it again to reopen earlier closed tabs.

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