Google Chrome Keyboard Shortcuts

Entering URLs

To go to http://www.google.com, for example, press Ctrl+L, type "google," and then press Ctrl+Enter.

Action	Shortcut
Location Bar	Ctrl+L
Automatic .com Address	Ctrl+Enter

Basic Navigation

You can access each of the navigation toolbar commands using keyboard shortcuts. They are listed below in the order in which they appear on the toolbar.

Action	Shortcut
Previous Page	Alt+Left
Next Page	Alt+Right
Refresh Page	Ctrl+R
Bookmark Current Page	Ctrl+D
Location Bar	Ctrl+L

Tabbed Browsing

In order to open a new (blank) tab, press Ctrl+T. To close a tab, press Ctrl+W. If you closed a tab by mistake and would like to recover it, press Ctrl+Shift+T.

If you are entering an address in the location bar, and would like to open it in a new tab, press Alt+Enter. If you are browsing a page and see a link you would like to open in a new tab, hold Ctrl while clicking the link with your mouse (Ctrl+Click), middle click the link, or press Ctrl+Enter after you Tab onto the link. (Doing each of these will open the link in the background. In order to open the link in the foreground, also hold Shift during each of these shortcuts.)

If you have multiple tabs, you can directly access the first tab using Ctrl+1, the second tab using Ctrl+2, and so on up to Ctrl+8 (Ctrl+9 takes you to the last tab, regardless of its number). To move from one tab to the next, or one tab to the previous, press Ctrl+PageUp or Ctrl+PageDown.

Finally, to start a whole new group of tabs (that is, a new window), press Ctrl+N.

Action	Shortcut
New Tab	Ctrl+T
Close Tab	Ctrl+W
Recover Closed Tab	Ctrl+Shift+T
Open Address in New Tab	Alt+Enter
Open Link in New Tab (Background)	Ctrl+Click Ctrl+Enter MiddleClick
Open Link in New Tab (Foreground)	Ctrl+Shift+Click Ctrl+Shift+Enter Shift+MiddleClick
Select Tab	Ctrl+(1 to 8)
Select Last Tab	Ctrl+9
Next Tab	Ctrl+PageDown
Previous Tab	Ctrl+PageUp
New Window	Ctrl+N

Miscellaneous

Action	Shortcut
Home	Alt+Home
Stop	Esc
Find	Ctrl+F
Bookmarks	Ctrl+B
History	Ctrl+H
Downloads	Ctrl+J
Zoom In	Ctrl++
Zoom Out	Ctrl+-
Reset Zoom	Ctrl+0
Advance to Next Link	Tab

Notes

This list is not exhaustive. For a more complete list of shortcuts, see the Google Chrome Help Center.