Google Chrome tips, tricks and shortcuts

Google Chrome

Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. Most people don’t use Google’s new Chrome Web browser as their primary browser yet. Anyway, for those of you guys who are always looking for good stuff to improve your software beyond its limit, here is a list of useful tricks or hacks:

Google Chrome About

1. about: or about:version
   Obviously version information (also accessible by chrome-resource://about/)
2. about:memory
   Memory stats
3. about:stats
   a list of internal counters and timers that has a funny subtitle “Shhh! This page is secret!”.
4. about:network
   this page could be used for I/O tracking and it’s a partial replacement for the Live HTTP Headers extension. Click on “Start I/O tracking”, open a web page in a new tab and you’ll get a list of all the images, scripts and objects loaded from that web page.
5. about:plugins
   the list of plug-ins that are available in Google Chrome: Shockwave Flash, RealPlayer etc.
6. about:cache
   redirecting to view-cache: – list of cached documents, each viewable in HEX!
7. view-cache:stats
   stats for cached documents
8. about:histograms
   a list of histograms for Google Chrome’s internal metrics.
9. about:dns
   Google Chrome prefetches the DNS records for 10 frequently visited hostnames. This feature can be disabled in Options > Under the Hood by unchecking “Use DNS pre-fetching to improve page load performance”.
10. about:hang
    type this in the address bar of a tab when there’s already an active web page to hang the process (this means that the process no longer accepts any signal, but it’s still running). The other tabs will continue to work and the active tab can be closed.

Keyboard shortcuts

1. Ctrl+N
   Open a new window
2. Ctrl+Shift+N
   Open a new window in incognito mode
3. Press Ctrl, and click a link
   Open link in a new tab
4. Press Shift, and click a link
   Open link in a new window
5. Alt+F4
   Close current window
6. Ctrl+T
   Open a new tab
7. Ctrl+Shift+T
   Reopen the last tab you’ve closed. Google Chrome remembers the last 10 tabs you’ve closed.
8. Drag link to tab
   Open link in specified tab
9. Drag link to space between tabs
   Open link in a new tab in the specified position on the tab strip
10. Ctrl+1 through Ctrl+8
    Switch to the tab at the specified position number. The number you press represents a position on the tab strip.
11. Ctrl+9
    Switch to the last tab
12. Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+PgDown
    Switch to the next tab
13. Ctrl+Shift+Tab or Ctrl+PgUp
    Switch to the previous tab
14. Ctrl+W or Ctrl+F4
    Close current tab or pop-up
15. Alt+Home
    Open your homepage
16. Ctrl+O, then select file
    Open a file from your computer in Google Chrome

Address bar shortcuts

Do one of the following actions in the address bar:

1. Type a search term
   Perform a search using your default search engine
2. Type the part of the web address that’s between ‘www.’ and ‘.com’, then press Ctrl+Enter
   Add www.and .com to your input in the address bar and open the web address
3. Type a search engine keyword or URL, press Tab, then type a search term
   Perform a search using the search engine associated with the keyword or the URL. Google Chrome prompts you to press Tab if it recognizes the search engine you’re trying to use.
4. F6 or Ctrl+L or Alt+D
   Highlight content in the web address area
5. Type a web address, then press Alt+Enter
   Open your web address in a new tab

Shortcuts to open Google Chrome features

1. Ctrl+B
   Toggle bookmarks bar on and off
2. Ctrl+H
   View the History page
3. Ctrl+J
   View the Downloads page
4. Shift+Escape
   View the Task manager

Webpage shortcuts

1. Ctrl+P
   Print your current page
2. F5
   Reload current page
3. Esc
   Stop page loading
4. Ctrl+F5 or Shift+F5
   Reload current page, ignoring cached content
5. Press Alt, and click a link
   Download link
6. Ctrl+F
   Open find-in-page box
7. Ctrl+G or F3
   Find next match for your input in the find-in-page box
8. Ctrl+Shift+G or Shift+F3
   Find previous match for your input in the find-in-page box
9. Ctrl+U
   View source
10. Drag link to bookmarks bar
    Bookmark the link
11. Ctrl+D
    Bookmark your current webpage
12. Ctrl++
    Make text larger
13. Ctrl+-
    Make text smaller
14. Ctrl+0
    Return to normal text size

Text shortcuts

1. Highlight content, then press Ctrl+C
   Copy content to the clipboard
2. Place your cursor in a text field, then press Ctrl+V or Shift+Insert
   Paste current content from the clipboard
3. Place your cursor in a text field, then press Ctrl+Shift+V
   Paste current content from the clipboard without formatting
4. Highlight content in a text field, then press Ctrl+X or Shift+Delete
   Delete the content and copy it to the clipboard