Recently I discovered how to make Google chrome that much faster. There are shortcuts for almost every mouse function that can be awkward, slow or inefficient. I went through the list, which can be found here and pulled the ones most relevant to my needs.
Window and Tab Functions
Ctrl+Shift+N
Opens a new window in incognito mode.
Press Ctrl+O, then select file.
Opens a file from your computer in Google Chrome.
Press Ctrl and click a link. Or click a link with your middle mouse button (or mousewheel).
Opens the link in a new tab in the background .
Press Ctrl+Shift and click a link. Or press Shift and click a link with your middle mouse button (or mousewheel).
Opens the link in a new tab and switches to the newly opened tab.
Ctrl+1 through Ctrl+8
Switches to the tab at the specified position number on the tab strip.
Ctrl+9
Switches to the last tab.
Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+PgDown
Switches to the next tab.
Ctrl+Shift+Tab or Ctrl+PgUp
Switches to the previous tab.
Alt+F4
Closes the current window.
Ctrl+W or Ctrl+F4
Closes the current tab or pop-up.
Alt+Home
Opens your homepage in your current window.
Alt+E
Opens the Page menu, which lets you control the page you’re viewing.
Ctrl+H
Opens the History page.
Ctrl+J
Opens the Downloads page.
Shift+Esc
Opens the Task Manager.
Performs a search using the search engine associated with the URL.
Ctrl+Enter
Adds www. and .com to your input in the address bar and open the resulting URL.
Type a URL, then press Alt+Enter.
Opens the URL in a new tab.
F6 or Ctrl+L or Alt+D
Highlights the URL.
Ctrl+K or Ctrl+E
Places a ‘?’ in the address bar. Type a search term after the question mark to perform a search using your default search engine.
F5 or Ctrl+R
Reloads your current page.
Ctrl+F5 or Shift+F5
Reloads your current page, ignoring cached content.
Esc
Stops the loading of your current page.
Exporting Content
Press Alt and click a link.
Downloads the target of the link.
Find within the page
Ctrl+F
Opens the find bar.
Ctrl+G or F3
Finds the next match for your input in the find bar.
Ctrl+Shift+G, Shift+F3, or Shift+Enter
Finds the previous match for your input in the find bar.
Book Marks
Ctrl+B
Toggles the bookmarks bar on and off.
Ctrl+Shift+B
Opens the Bookmark manager.
Manipulating Content
Ctrl+U
Opens the source of your current page.
Press Shift and scroll your mousewheel.
Scrolls horizontally on the page.
Text shortcuts
Ctrl+C
Copies highlighted content to the clipboard.
Ctrl+V or Shift+Insert
Pastes content from the clipboard.
Ctrl+Shift+V
Paste content from the clipboard without formatting.
Ctrl+X or Shift+Delete
Deletes the highlighted content and copies it to the clipboard.
