When we enter the important world of Internet browsers , there is one that stands out above the rest due to its enormous market penetration. That none other than Google Chrome, the proposal of this type preferred by the vast majority of users.
Despite having at hand, and for free, many other proposals of this type, the most used is Chrome. With more than 70% of global use, it is far above other browsers such as Mozilla’s Firefox, Opera, Edge , etc. To a large extent, all this is due to the wide functional availability that the program offers us. It also integrates seamlessly with many other applications and platforms from the search giant.
Hence, most users choose to navigate with this software and not with another of the many options that we can use. Well, in addition to the functions that we have in view and that most of you already know more than about, there are other tricks that are somewhat more hidden. These help us to get more out of the program as such, so we will show you some of them.
Use extensions with a keyboard shortcut
One of these best features that you may not know about in Chrome is customizing the use of installed extensions through keyboard shortcuts. In order to make use of these, the first thing to do is define a specific key combination. To do this we have to open the main menu of the program, where we select the More tools option. Then, in the window that appears, we find a small menu in the left corner, where we can choose the Shortcuts option.
This will lead us to another window where we see the extensions and in which we can already specify the keyboard shortcut to use with each of these elements.
Open links directly in another tab
When browsing the Internet, we constantly come across links that call other addresses that we can click on. So we change the web immediately, but it may be that what we need is to open a link in a new tab. Well, this is something just as simple, but before clicking on it, we must hold down the Ctrl key.
On the other hand, if instead of a new tab, we want to open a certain link in a completely new window, we will use the Shift button.
Recover a tab closed by mistake
Something that surely has happened to us on many occasions is that we have closed a tab by mistake or without realizing it. Thus, it is instead of losing it forever, Chrome allows us to recover it quickly. For this we only have to use the key combination Ctrl + Shift + T. At that time the Google browser will reopen the most recent closed tab immediately.
What’s more, this is something we can do multiple times if there is more than one tab that we need to retrieve at that time.
Save all tabs in Chrome
There are many extensions that allow us to manage the use of tabs in the browser . In the same way, we have the possibility of saving them for future sessions with the program. But it is worth mentioning that there is a Chrome trick that allows us to do this without additions. Thus, in the case that we have a group of tabs open and we want to save the entire session for later, we use the key combination Ctrl + Shift + D.
With this we managed to save all the open tabs in a folder to access them in the future. To restore them, we right-click on the folder within the bookmarks and select Open all.
Restart Chrome quickly
It may be the case that the browser we are talking about gets blocked for whatever reason. This is something that can even affect other elements of the operating system, so it is best to restart the program immediately. To restart the browser we can use the command chrome: // restart. We just have to type it in the Chrome address bar and the browser will restart and restore all the tabs and windows .
Save links with just one click
Every day we move through a huge number of websites, some more interesting than others. Those that we want to save for the future, we can store them in the bookmarks section of the program. But at the same time, we can save any link in which we are, directly. For this we only have to click and hold the mouse and drag the link as such to the Chrome bookmarks bar.