Google Chrome and Internet Explorer | Keyboard Shortcuts

If you don’t like using mouse much, then you are probably lucky. Google Chrome and Internet Explorer has lots of built-in keyboard shortcuts, many of which mirror Firefox’s, which we covered a couple of days ago.

Here are a few of our favorites Google Chrome keyboard shortcuts and next up is IE keyboard shortcuts; hope it will come in handy.

Google Chrome Shortcut Keys

• Ctrl+B (Toggles the bookmarks bar on and off)

• Ctrl+Shift+N (Opens a new window in “Incognito Mode.”)

• Ctrl+K (Moves your cursor to the address bar to enter a Google search)

• Ctrl+T (Opens a new tab)

• Ctrl+Tab (Cycles through open tabs)

• Ctrl+Shift+Tab (Reverse cycles through open tabs)

• Ctrl+1 through 9 (Switches to a particular open tab position)

• Shift+Escape (Opens Google Chrome’s Task Manager)

• Alt+Home (Loads your homepage)

• Ctrl+N (Opens a new window)

• Ctrl+Shift+T (Opens the last closed tab)

• Ctrl+R (Refreshes the current page)

• Ctrl++, Ctrl+-, Ctrl+0 (Enlarges, reduces, and restores default text sizes, respectively)

• Ctrl+L (Move your cursor to the address bar)

• Ctrl+J (Opens the Downloads tab)

• Ctrl+W (Closes the current tab)

• Ctrl+H (Opens the History tab)

Internet Explorer Shortcut Keys

• CTRL+N (Start another instance of the browser with the same Web address)

• CTRL+O or CTRL+L (Go to a new location)

• ALT+LEFT ARROW or BACKSPACE (Go to the previous page)

• CTRL+F (Start the Find utility)

• F11 (Toggle between full-screen and other views in the browser)

• CTRL+P (Open the Print dialog box)

• SHIFT+TAB (Move through the items on a Web page, the Address box, or the Links box)

• CTRL+TAB or F6 (Move forward between frames)

• SHIFT+CTRL+TAB (Move back between frames)

• ALT+D (Select the text in the Address box)

• CTRL+ENTER (Add “www.” to the beginning and “.com” to the end of the text that you type in the Address box)

Want to share your favorite shortcut with us? Drop a comment!