A list of Chrome/Chromium OS keyboard shortcuts
This is an excerpt from the Developer FAQ for The Chromium Projects useful if you are testing one of the Chromium OS compiled images.
To get a visual overlay of shortcut keys available, hit F8 and any of the modifier keys like CTRL, ALT, SHIFT to find all the associated hotkeys
Most browser shortcuts also apply
Action | When | Feature |
F12 | Running | Toggle Window Overview |
F8 | Running | Toggle keyboard overlay showing all the shortcut keys |
ESC | Window Overview | Exit Window Overview |
F2 | Boot | Startup options – disable internal HDD to boot from USB stick |
Ctrl + Alt + T | Running | Open Terminal Window |
Ctrl + Alt + N | Chrome | Open New Chrome Window |
Ctrl + Alt + L | Running | Lock the screen |
Ctrl + Alt + M | Running | Enable external monitor |
Ctrl + , | Chrome | Goto battery and network settings page (localhost:8080) |
Ctrl + Tab | Chrome | Next Tab |
Ctrl + Shift + Tab | Chrome | Prior Tab |
Ctrl + 1 through Ctrl + 8 | Chrome | Switches to the tab at the specified position number on the tab strip |
Alt + Tab | Running | Next Window |
Alt + Shift + Tab | Running | Prior Window |
Close Lid | Running | Sleep mode |
Power-Key | Running | Shutdown |