Top 5 Chrome Extensions to Add Keyboard Shortcuts to Your Brower

There is a Chrome extension for almost everything. There is definitely a handle for creating and adding keyboard shortcuts to your Chrome browser. These shortcuts will then speed things up for you as you race against the clock to get the job done on time. They will help reduce the time required to perform various functions or steps.

Let’s take a look at all the ways you can add custom shortcuts to Chrome browser. Here are some of the best extensions we could find. However, there are others as well. These extensions should get you started and give you a good idea of ​​what can be achieved.

Let’s start.

1. Custom keyboard shortcuts

Install the extension on your Chrome browser, but note that it will work on all Chromium powered browsers like Edge and Brave. Click the extension icon to select Options. You will see a plus icon at the bottom of the screen.

You do not know what to do? Just enter the keyboard shortcut you’ll use, the URL of the website you’ll be using it on, and the jQuery selector that will mimic the click of a button. For example, you use the Pocketcasts site.

You will enter pause_button in the Element field. Pressing the P button while listening to a podcast on the website should pause it. Just like the Space button on YouTube. The developer uploaded a single screenshot with no examples or explanations of how it all unfortunately works.

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2. Tab manager shortcuts

Most people don’t know it yet, but you can select open tabs by pressing Ctrl + number.

For example, press Ctrl + 2 to select the second tab from the left. What you can’t do is pin existing tabs or move them using keyboard shortcuts. Now you can. And the source code for the extension is available on GitHub.

Open the Extensions page and under the Keyboard Shortcuts tab you can create custom shortcuts. Simply enter the desired keyboard shortcut in front of the predefined shortcuts. Smartly manage tabs.

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3. Chrome shortcuts

Google Chrome and even other Chromium-based browsers come with a lot of settings that you can access from the Settings menu. It involves a few clicks, often resulting in you either looking for them or searching for them. This particular extension will create shortcuts to frequently used settings like passwords, language, autofill, flags, search settings to change the default search engine, etc.

Simply click on the easily accessible extension icon from the address bar to access all browser settings in one tab. There’s no need to dig deep into the settings in a separate tab. You will save time with this one.

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4. Keyboard shortcuts

The only paid Chrome extension to add keyboard shortcuts to your browser. But the cost is low and totally justifies the features. Have you ever come across an amazing extension only to realize that the developer gave it up? This is what happens with free extensions. There is no intensive to keep working, and as a result, they move on to other rewarding experiences.

Shortkeys offers all the features we have discussed so far. It supports simple keyboard shortcuts to complex javascript. This means that you can now use a shortcut to return to the previous page. The developer has listed several examples of everything you can do with the extension, in case you’re struggling to find creative ways to use it.

I like the blacklist / whitelist feature, where you can assign keyboard shortcuts to work on specific sites. This means that you can have the same keyboard shortcut to do different things on different sites. There will be no overlap.

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5. smartKey shortcuts

Last but not the least is the smartKey Shortcuts Chrome extension for adding keyboard shortcuts. This one has the best user interface, in my opinion. Very clean and easy to use. Also, colorful. They have a few examples to start with. The extension supports javascript, so you can create functions that mimic the click of a key.

There are separate tabs for different types of shortcuts. The advanced tab is where you can create functions or even add files while the Actions tab is for using the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl, Alt, or Shift.

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Extending functions with extensions

This is my theory on how Google decided on the name extension. They extend the existing functions of your Chrome browser with new and improved functionality. Arguably, extensions have evolved to offer much more than that. We’ve covered several Chrome extensions over the years at GT. Just use the search bar to find them. Meanwhile, these expansions will keep you busy for the next few days.

Note that I also don’t recommend installing too many extensions. This will slow down your computer over time. You don’t want that, especially if you have an old computer and regularly have hundreds of tabs open.