I am a total keyboard person. I would not even touch the mouse unless I really have to. This was one reason why I was trying hard to find how to setup some keyboard shortcuts for Chrome and I came across this post.
This is how I found out about AutoHotkey. AutoHotkey is an open source software that helps you control your machine with key strokes and the mouse wheel, just the way you want.
So here is what you need to do to use keyboard shortcuts in Chtrome:
Step 1. Install the AutoHotkey software from here.
Step 2. Save this file (or this for Vista) containing the script anywhere on your computer.
Step 3. Open the file using any text editor and delete –no-sandbox from line 33 of the file.
Thats it. You’re all set to use the following shortcuts on your chrome:
| Win+a or F1 | Switch to previous tab |
| Win+s or F2 | Switch to next tab |
| Win+z | Go back |
| Win+x | Go forward |
| Win+c or F4 | Close current tab |
| Win+v | Paste and go |
| Win+Alt+v | Paste and go in a new tab |
| F12 | Undo last tab |
| CAPS | Switch to Chrome and create a new tab (If Chrome isn’t already running, it opens Chrome first) |
You can also change any of these shortcuts by opening the .ahk file. A word of caution though, when I was using this script my CAPS key would not function correctly, so I had to pause the script and it worked fine. Not sure if it just happened once or its a bug, but overall its coming in pretty handy.
