My favorite Chrome shortcuts on macOS

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Chrome keyboard shortcuts

Here are some of my most-used Chrome shortcuts on macOS.

Tabs

Shortcut	Action
⌘ T	Open new tab
⌘ ⇧ N	Open new Incognito tab
⌘ W	Close current tab
⌘ ⌥ ←	Select previous tab
⌘ ⌥ →	Select next tab
⌘ 1, ⌘ 2, ⌘ 3 etc...	Select a specific tab from currently open tabs

Current tab

Shortcut	Action
⌘ L	Select all text in the URL bar
⌘ F	Search all text in the current tab
⌘ R	Refresh the current tab
⌘ ⇧ R	Refresh the current tab and clear cache (forces all data to refresh)

When typing in the URL bar (after ⌘ L)

Note: These shortcuts are available when editing text in most macOS apps:

Shortcut	Action
⌘ A	Select all text
⇧ ←	Select the previous text character, can be used one or many times
⇧ →	Select the next text character, can be used one or many times
⇧ ⌥ ←	Select the previous word, can be used one or many times
⇧ ⌥ →	Select the next word, can be used one or many times
⌘ ←	Move the cursor to the beginning of the line
⌘ →	Move the cursor to the end of the line
⌥ ←	Move the cursor back one word
⌥ →	Move the cursor forward one word
⌃ ⌘ Spacebar	Bring up the special character palette (For symbols and Emojis)

History

Shortcut	Action
⌘ [	Go back one step in the history
⌘ ]	Go forward one step in the history

Shortcut key legend

Symbol	Key Name
⇧	Shift
⇪	Caps Lock
⌃	Control
⌘	Command
⌥	Option
←	Left arrow
→	Right arrow