Google Chrome Shortcuts
- Control + Shift + N opens an 'incognito' window - sites you view in this window won't appear in your history and cookies served by sites in this window will be deleted when the window is closed.
- You can open a link in an incognito window by right-clicking the link and selecting Open link in incognito window.
- Alt + Home loads your Google Chrome home page, with thumbnails of your most visited sites shown in the active tabbed window.
- Control + T opens a new tab. You can drag tabs around to change their order or drag a tab out of the window into its own window.
- 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.
- Jump to different open tabs using Control + 1, Control + 2, Control + 3, etc. Control + 9 takes you to the last tab.
- Control + Tab lets you cycle through your open tabs in order.
- Control + Shift + Tab cycles through your tabs in the opposite order.
- As with Firefox 3, you can drag a link onto a tab to open it in that tab, or drop it between two tabs to open a new tab in that position.
- To bookmark a site click the star on the left of the address bar and then select a folder to add it to.
- Control +B hides the Google Chrome bookmarks bar. Press Control + B to bring it back again.
- Right-click or hold down the back button and you'll get a drop-down list of sites to go back through. Show Full History, at the bottom of the list, opens a new tab with your full browser history.
- Control + H is a faster way to bring up the History page.
- You can delete history for chosen days by scrolling to the day you want to delete and clicking Delete history for this day on the right-hand side of the window.
- Control + J brings up your Downloads page.
- To clear an item from your Downloads page, right-click an entry and select Remove.
- Press Control + K or Control + E to search from the address bar. Once pressed, you'll see a ? symbol appear in the address bar and you can simply enter your search query and hit Return.
- 18. 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.
- 19. Shift + Escape is a quicker way to bring up the Google Chrome Task manager.
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