Keyboard shortcuts are essential if you use an application very often, especially if you are working from a MacBook without mouse. It is much more practical to press a couple of keys than with the trackpad to navigate through menus and submenus to find the desired function.
Next we are going to list the browser keyboard shortcuts Google Chrome which, curiously, also works for the browser Microsoft Edge, since it is based on the same Chromium system.
Many Mac users use the Google Chrome browser as the default, or as a plug-in for the native Apple Safari browser. I used it regularly until a month ago. I would rather browse with Chrome than Safari for various reasons. The fundamental is the automatic translation of other languages, much better Google Translate than the one offered by Translate for Safari, for example.
Another reason is the incompatibility of Safari with certain platforms of streaming video, or the convenience of using some Google applications if you are already logged into your Chrome browser.
But for a month the final version of Microsoft Edge, I have stopped using Chrome. It works very well, it is much lighter when it comes to consuming resources, and you can use all the extensions that the Chrome platform offers you, including its powerful translator.
But let's get to the point and see all the keyboard shortcuts offered by these two browsers based on the same platform Chromium, Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge:
Windows
- Open a new window: Command + N
- Open a new incognito window: Command + Shift + N
- Enter / Exit full screen: Command + control + F
- Minimize the window: Command + M
- Hide the window: Command + H
- Close the window: Command + Shift + W
- Exit the application: Command + Q
Tabs
- Open a new tab: Command + T
- Select a tab from 1 to 8: Command + 1, command + 2, etc.
- Select the last tab: Command + 9
- Reopen previously closed tabs in the same order they were closed: Command + Shift + T
- Open the previous page of your history in the current tab: Command + [(left bracket or left cursor arrow
- Open the next page of your history in the current tab: Command +] (right bracket or right cursor arrow)
- Move to the next open tab: Command + option + right arrow
- Move to the previous open tab: Command + option + left arrow
- Close a tab: Command + W
Pages
- Reload and ignore cache: Command + Shift + R
- Zoom in: Command + plus sign (+)
- Zoom Out: Command + Dash (-)
- Reset zoom: Command + 0
- Move down the screen: Space bar
- Raise the screen: Shift + Spacebar
- Save page: Command + S
- Save page as a bookmark: Command + D
- Save open tabs to a new bookmarks folder: Command + Shift + D
- Print the page: Command + P
Address bar
- Go to the address bar: Command + L
- Move the cursor to the address bar: Control + F5
- Search with the default search engine: type the search term + return
- Search with a different search engine: Search Engine + Tab
- Open a website in a background tab: Web address + return
- Complete www and .com in the address bar of the current tab: Control + retur
- Complete www and .com in the address bar of a new tab: Control + shift + return
Bookmarks, history, and tools
- Show / Hide the Bookmarks bar: Command + Shift + B
- Open the Bookmarks manager: Command + option + B
- Open the history: Command + Y
- Open Settings: Command + comma (,)
- Open the download page: Command + Shift + J
- Open development tools: Command + option + J
- Open clear data options: Command + shift + delete
I hope this long list of shortcuts help you with the features you use most often. Many can also be useful if you use these two browsers in a Windows environment, with some small variations.