Keyboard Shortcuts in Google Chrome / Chromium Extensions

Question

I\'ve created a basic extension for Google Chrome to change the behavior of which tab is selected when you close a tab so that the selected tab is the last one you had selec

Answer 1

Google Shortcut key like from readrwrite site GOOGLE CHROME SHORTCUTS Shortcut Function Ctrl + O To open any data/file in internet search engines Ctrl + N To open new internet window not tab Ctrl + Shift + N To open new internet window with black background Ctrl + T To open new tab Ctrl + F4 To close the open tab Ctrl + W To close the internet search engine read more and explore all about chrome shortcuts

Answer 2

Keyboard shortcuts are implemented with chrome.commands in Chrome 25 and above: developer.chrome.com/apps/commands.html.

Answer 3

Unfortunately there's no way to hook into global hotkeys. The best you can do is add a window event keypress listener.

Source: a Chromium developer post on the chromium-extensions group.

Answer 4

Just as an update it's actually being developed now:

http://developer.chrome.com/trunk/apps/commands.html