8 Awesome Google Chrome Shortcuts to Save You Time

Learning keyboard shortcuts is a great way to go from a computer user to a computer pro. These keyboard shortcuts will make you look like a wizard as you navigate the internet without hunting and pecking with a mouse. It may not seem like it, but just commit a few of these shortcuts to memory and I promise you’ll see a change in you web browsing capabilities. Just like anything: practice practice practice!

As a quick note, I’ll be mentioning control keys. On a windows keyboard, these will be on the bottom right and the bottom left and will be abbreviated as “ctrl.” For a Mac keyboard, the key will be called “command.” These two keys are interchangeable for the shortcuts we’re going to cover.

Open Links in New Tab

Control+ or Command+ Click

If you click on a link while holding the control key, it will open up that link in a new tab. I use this shortcut while doing research. I’ll read a page and control click every link that might be helpful and continue to read. This opens up everything I click on in a new tab. This is great because when I’m doing reading the page I’m on I simply close that tab and move on to the next.

It’s a great way to queue up content for reading and researching.

Find text on page

Control+ or Command+ F

This one may seem like a no brainer but it’s incredibly helpful. Pressing control and the “f” key will bring up a small search box that will allow you to search for text on a page. This prevents you from having to scan an entire webpage for the information that you’re looking for.

The awesome thing about chrome though is that on the right hand side where the scroll bar is, you’ll see a little tick mark noting where that text was found in the page. This can be useful when looking through long Wikipedia pages. If you see a lot of tick marks close together you can be pretty sure that that portion of the page probably has the information that you’re looking for.

Enlarge/Shrink Page

Control+ or Command+ +/-

Sometimes when cruising the internet, there will be a website that has some really small text on it. This might be the comments on a blog, text in one of those agreements we all click through, or maybe the fine print of a document. If you use control and the “+” key, the page will be magnified. You can continue pressing it to magnify the page more. To get back to normal or zoom out, simply press control and the “-“ key.

I use this a lot when browsing the internet with my parents or grandparents, or when I’ve...

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