32 Google Chrome tips and shortcuts
The following are some useful shortcuts:
1. Alt+F – Open the wrench menu (i.e chrome settings menu)
2. Ctrl+J – Go to downloads window
3. Ctrl+H – Go to history window
4. Ctrl+Tab – Navigate Tabs
5. Alt+Home – Go to home page
6. Ctrl+U – View source code of the current page
7. Ctrl+K – To search quickly in the address bar
8. Ctrl+L – Highlights the URL in the address bar (use this to copy/paste the URL quickly)
9. Ctrl+N – Open a new Chrome browser window
10. Ctrl+Shift+N – Open a new incognito window (for private browsing)
11. Ctrl+Shift+B – Toggle bookmark display
12. Ctrl+W – Close the current Tab
13. Alt+Left Arrow – Go to the previous page from your history
14. Alt+Right Arrow – Go to the next page from your history
15. Space bar – Scroll down the current web page
16. Control + T— opens a new tab.
17. Control + Shift + T— opens your most recently closed tab. Press the key combination again to open the tab closed before that one. Google Chrome remembers the last 10 tabs you’ve closed.
18. Jump to different open tabs using Control + 1, Control + 2, Control + 3, etc. Control + 9 takes you to the last tab.
19. Control + Shift + Tab cycles through your tabs in the opposite order.
20. Control +B hides the Google Chrome bookmarks bar. Press Control +B to bring it back again.
21. Right-click the top of the browser window and select Task manager to see how much memory different tabs and plug-ins are using. Highlight one and click End process to stop it running.
22. Shift + Escape is a quicker way to bring up the Google Chrome Task manager.
23. To see what plug-ins are installed, type about:plugins into the address window.
24. You can also type the following commands into the Google Chrome address window: about:stats, about:network, about:histograms,about:memory, about:cache, about:dns.
25. Type about: crash to see what a crashed tab looks like.
26. A three-second diversion: type about: internet. (Only works in Windows XP.)
27. Edit any web page – right-click a page and select Inspect element. Now edit the HTML source code and hit Return to view the changes.
28. To make Google Chrome your default browser, click the Tools button (in the right-hand corner of the browser window – a spanner icon). Select Options, click the Basics tab and then click the Make Google Chrome my default browser button.
29. To delete cookies, go to Tools > Options > Under the Hood. Scroll down to the Security section, and click Show cookies. Now you can click Remove all or remove individual cookies.
30. To clear more data such as the Google Chrome browsing history and cache, click the Tools icon and select Clear browsing data…
31. To clear the most visited web sites that appear on your Google Chrome start page, you must clear your browsing history using the method above.
32. Clearing your Google Chrome browser history will also stop matches from previously browsed sites appearing as suggestions in your address bar.
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