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Friday, November 18, 2011

Shortcuts to Increase Your Performance during Internet browsing


Google Chrome Keyboard Shortcut's


Google Chrome shortcuts provide an easy and effective way to improve your Internet browsing performance.
In This blog you will get some shortcuts to boost up your efficiency using the Google Chrome Web browser.

Many people feel that Google Chrome performs much better than other web browsers. As i found my own research its true and by using some easy keyboard shortcuts that i posted in this blog can make Chrome’s Internet browsing performance much faster then others.

What is a Shortcuts key:
In my words "Shortcut key is a combination of keystrokes or a way to perform a task very quickly"

For Example -
Ctrl + A, Ctrl + C, Ctrl + Z etc.
Here "Ctrl + A" means you should hold down the Ctrl (control) key and then press the letter "A" on your keyboard.
You can use some other keys with combination like "Shift", "Alt", "F1,F2......F12 etc.

There are some shortcut keys for Google Chrome with there functionlity. You will find that many of these shortcuts are quite similar to other browsers-

Space Bar Page down one full screen at a time
Page Down Page down one full screen at a time
Down Arrow Scroll Down
Shift  + Space Bar Page up one full screen at a time
Page Up Page up one full screen at a time
Up Arrow Scroll Up
Home Go to the top of the webpage
End Go to the bottom of the webpage
Ctrl + N Open a new window
Ctrl + Shift + N Open a new window in incognito mode
Alt + F4 Close the current window
Shift + Click on link Open the link in a new window
Ctrl + Click on link Open link in a new tab in the background
Ctrl + Shift Click on link – Open the link in a new tab and switch to tab
Ctrl + T Open a new tab
Ctrl + Shift + T Reopen the last tab that was closed
Ctrl + 1 through Ctrl + 8 Switch to the tab at the specified position
Ctrl + 9 Switch to the last tab
Ctrl + Tab Switch to the next tab
Ctrl + Shift + Tab or Ctrl + PgUp Switch to the previous tab
Backspace Go to the previous page in your browsing history for the tab
Shift + Backspace   Go to the next page in your browsing history for the tab
Ctrl + W Close the current tab or pop-up
Alt + Home Go to your homepage in the current tab
Ctrl + P Print the current page
Ctrl + S Save the current page
Ctrl + O Open a file from your computer in Google Chrome
Esc Stop page loading
Ctrl + D Bookmark the current webpage
Ctrl + Shift + D Save all open pages as bookmarks in a new folder
Alt + Click on link Download link
Ctrl + F Open the search box
F1 - Open the Help Center in a new tab
F3 Show input box to find out the text in web page
F5 Reload the current page
F6 Highlight address bar contents
F11 Open page in full screen mode
Shift + F3 Show input box to find out the text in web page
Ctrl + F5 Reload the current page (ignore cached content)
Ctrl + + Make the text larger
Ctrl + -   Make the text smaller
Ctrl + 0 Return text to normal size
Ctrl + H Display the History page
Ctrl + J Display the Downloads page
Ctrl + U Display page source code
Ctrl + Shift + B Toggle the bookmarks bar
Shift + Esc Display the task manager
Ctrl + Shift + Delete Open the Clear Browsing Data Dialog
Ctrl + Right Arrow Jump to the next word in the address bar
Ctrl + Backspace Delete the previous word in the address bar
Middle click on tab Close the tab
Shift + Scroll Wheel Scroll horizontally
Ctrl + Scroll Wheel Increase or decrease text size
Type  a address then Alt + Enter  – Open web address that appears in the address bar in a new tab
Type a search term, press Enter Perform a search using your default search engine


These are some other effective shortcuts -

  • Type a search engine URL, then press TAB, type a search term, and press Enter – Perform a search using search engine associated with the URL.
  • Ctrl + Enter after typing base web address – Automatically add 'www.' and '.com' what you have typed in the address bar and open that web address.
  • Ctrl + K – Initiate a Google search with the address bar. After typing the shortcut key, a '?' will appear in the address bar. Type your query then press Enter.
  • Select an entry from the drop down menu in the address bar, then press Shift — Delete – Delete the entry from the browsing history
  • Click an entry in the address bar drop down list with the Middle Mouse Button – Open that URL in a new tab
  • Middle click on link – Open the link in a new tab in the background
  • Shift + Middle click on link – Open the link in a new tab and switch to the newly opened tab
  • Click the Back Button, Forward Arrow, or Go button with Middle Mouse Button -  Open destination in a new tab in the background