Web Geek’s Guide to Google™ Chrome

Appendix AGoogle Chrome Shortcuts

In This Appendix

• Navigation Shortcuts

• Address Bar Shortcuts

• Chrome Feature Shortcuts

• Web Page Shortcuts

• Text Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts are key combinations that help you reduce the amount of mouse use you need to perform a specific action. The theory is that it takes far less time and energy to press a combination of keys on the keyboard than it does to reach over, align the mouse, and then click the button to create the action you want.

The problem comes in when you don’t know the keyboard shortcuts. With Google Chrome, some of the keyboard shortcuts that you’ve become familiar with in other browsers have the same functions. There are some new combinations, though. What follows is a specific list ...