August 4, 2012

Create Keyboard Shortcuts for Chrome Extensions

Chrome 22 (currently in the Dev channel) has a cool feature that lets you set keyboard shortcuts for extension buttons.

Just open the extensions page (click the wrench icon, then select Tools and Extensions), scroll to the bottom of the page and click "Configure commands". You can enter shortcuts for all the extensions that use browser actions, a fancy name for the buttons displayed next to the Omnibox.




Right now, you can only set shortcuts that simulate clicking the buttons, so they're not useful for all extensions. For example, they're useful for the "Google +1 Button" extension because you can quickly +1 pages, but they're not useful for the LastPass extension because it only displays a long list of options.

There's an experimental Chrome API for extension developers that allows them to add keyboard shortcuts that trigger actions and it's likely that users will be able to customize these shortcuts.

Some shortcuts that work: Ctrl+Letter, Ctrl+Digit, Ctrl+Shift+Letter, Ctrl+Shift+Digit. You can even override standard shortcuts like Ctrl+T, Ctrl+C or Ctrl+P, but you shouldn't do that.
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11 comments:

  1. Anuj JainAugust 5, 2012 at 3:35 AM

    If you want to check out a cool new extension, try www.chatterati.in. It gives every webpage its very own discussion forum!

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  2. kattey sparesAugust 7, 2012 at 12:44 AM

    Nice Post Alex,

    thanks for sharing it....it will surely reduce the working time and make browsing easy....

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  3. AnonymousAugust 16, 2012 at 7:50 AM

    Typo: "quiclkly"

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  4. OrenPittsAugust 16, 2012 at 11:39 PM

    This is a good thing, creating shortcuts will allow easy access to Chrome. I will follow this post to create shortcuts to ease my job.

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  5. our websiteAugust 24, 2012 at 1:28 PM

    Chrome 22 (currently in the Dev channel) has a cool feature that lets you set keyboard shortcuts for extension buttons.
    Just open the extensions page (click the wrench icon, then select Tools and Extensions), scroll to the bottom of the page and click "Configure commands". You can enter shortcuts for all the extensions that use browser actions, a fancy name for the buttons displayed next to the Omnibox.

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  6. SalSeptember 14, 2012 at 2:01 PM

    Does anyone know how to remove them too? I tried it but now i can't find a way to delete them.

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  7. deepakOctober 14, 2012 at 7:14 AM

    same problem with me

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    1. NandarOctober 17, 2012 at 11:28 AM

      will be fixed on the next release.
      http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=152643

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  8. Chris BloomNovember 15, 2012 at 9:58 AM

    I keep trying to setup shortcuts for the three extensions I have installed, but they never stick. As soon as I finish entering a key combination the field goes back to the default "Not Set". Chrome 22.0.1229.94 on Mac OS 10.6.8

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  9. yiiitMarch 17, 2013 at 3:39 PM

    same here - any solution?

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  10. SPNJuly 11, 2016 at 3:10 PM

    Very Interesting.

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