Google Chrome Tabs — 10 Tips & Tricks

Google Chrome is quickly gaining acceptance and users seem to like to like its simplicity and efficiency.  Below are 10 tips and tricks that can be used to manipulate tabs to make you more efficient.

Mouse Tips & Tricks

1. “Scrunching” tabs or “Pinning” tabs.  Tabs can be made smaller to free up real estate in your title bar.  Simply drag a tab all the way to the left of the window and it will “scrunch.”  A mouse-over the tab to see the text title.  To restore the tab, drag it to the right of the scrunched tabs.  Example:
2. “Popping” tabs.  Tabs can become new browser windows by dragging them down from the tab bar.  Similarly, browser windows can be combined by dragging tabs from one tab bar to another tab bar.  This is especially helpful for users that run multiple monitors.
3. Context Menus.  Right click a tab and you have the following choices:  New tab, reload tab, duplicate, pin tab, close tab, close other tabs, close tabs to the right, close tabs opened by this tab (especially helpful), reopen closed tabs (more on this below) and bookmark all tabs.

Keyboard Shortcuts

4. Reopen last closed tab — Ctlr-Shift-T.  This can be a lifesaver.
5. New tab — Ctrl-T.
6. New window — Ctrl-W.
7. Switch to tab # — Ctrl+1-8.
8. Switch to last opened tab — Ctrl+9.
9. Next tab — Ctrl+Tab.  Previous tab — Ctrl+Shift+Tab.
10. Close current tab — Ctrl+W.

A complete list of shortcuts can be found in Google’s help files but I wrote this post because it highlights the top ten that are the most helpful.

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