Ctrl
,
Alt
, and
Shift
are modifier keys — hold them down while pressing other keys to modify the effects.

Browser

Effect

Shortcut

Demo
Find text in page
Ctrl
+
F
Jump to the next match to your Find Bar search
Enter
Jump to the previous match to your Find Bar search
Shift
+
Enter
Open link in new tab
Ctrl
+ Click or Mousewheel-Click
Quick-search any text
Select the text then drag to the tab strip

Effect

Shortcut

Demo
New window
Ctrl
+
N
Next tab
Ctrl
+
Tabtab symbol
Previous tab
Ctrl
+
Shift
+
Tabtab symbol
Close tab
Ctrl
+
W
Close window
Ctrl
+
Shift
+
W
New tab
Ctrl
+
T
Unclose tab (reopen last closed tab)
Ctrl
+
Shift
+
T
Select multiple tabs
Shift
or
Ctrl
+ Click tabs
Split tabs into new window
Drag tabs out of the tab strip
Save group of tabs for later
Save session in Toby tab manager

Effect

Shortcut

Demo
Complete Chrome shortcuts reference
Browser history
Ctrl
+
H
Browser downloads
Ctrl
+
J
Go back one page in history
Alt
+
←
Go forward one page in history
Alt
+
→
Add "www" and ".com" to a site name and open it in the current tab
Ctrl
+
Enter
Jump to the address bar
Ctrl
+
L
Switch focus between toolbars (tabs / address bar / page)
F6
Add quick-search shortcuts
Right-click address bar, "Edit search engines..."
Next to Other search engines, click "Add", then fill in the form...

"Search engine": the display name that will appear when you use it,

"Keyword": the keys used to perform the quick-search (shorter is better),

"URL with %s in place of query": search for something on any website with a search, then look at the address that results. Replace the query, the thing you searched for, with %s and copy-paste it in here. Watch out, sometimes the query may appear more than once in the full address

Now in your address bar you can type the keyword, hit
Space
and you're off to the races! 🐎
Open Chrome task manager
Shift
+
Esc
Useful if one of your tabs is frozen. If
Shift
+
Esc
doesn't work, try the top-right "More" ("...") button -> More tools -> Task manager.

Effect

Shortcut

Demo
Youtube shortcuts
Shift
+
?
Reveal Youtube's built-in shortcuts with
Shift
+
F
:
  • Speed up / slow down:
    Shift
    +
    >
    /
    <
  • Captions:
    C
  • Play/pause without requiring focus:
    K
  • Mute:
    M
Video Speed Controller extension for Chrome
D
/
S

Fine-tune video playback speed on any web player by increments of 0.1X.

Try this: play a video at a much higher rate than you’re comfortable with, then dial back the speed bit by bit until you hit your preferred speed.

If you’re not sure a video will be interesting, you can skim over it to see by speeding it up, up to 16X.