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Keyboard Shortcuts for Mac and Chrome

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The one you can't afford to miss:

    Command-`	Activate the next open window in the frontmost application

Also, hitting control-return in the omnibox will prepend "www" and append ".com". For example, you could type theoatmeal and hit control-return to be taken directly to www.theoatmeal.com.

This (afaik) is true of all major browsers, and has been for a long time. Although perhaps less obvious in the UI than in Chrome.

On a related note: Use BetterTouchTool to re-bind four-finger upward swipe to tile/untile open windows in the frontmost application, and re-bind four-finger side swipe to activate the next/previous open window in the frontmost application. The default actions for those gestures are useless, IMO.

I didn't see him mention Control-L for putting focus on the location bar in Chrome and other web browsers. I use that constantly.

I have exposé mapped to my middle mouse button, which i find very useful. But you cannot do this on the Magic Mouse (or whatever it's called) last time I checked, although I'm guessing there's a plugin to fix that. Still, it seems such an obvious feature to me, can't believe it's not included by default.

Holy crap how did I live without that binding. Updating the post asap!

Many of the Mac shortcuts don't work. For instance,

  F9 - Tile or untile all open windows

does nothing on my Snow Leopard. Perhaps he's referring to an older version of Mac OS X?

If you are on a laptop, or a keyboard with global application shortcuts on the f buttons, you might need to hold down the 'fn' key at the same time.

It just worked on my imac, 10.6.7, using a dell keyboard

Awesome list, shift+tab is going to save me so much time in Mail.app its not even funny.

I had to read the title three times to not see Mac and Cheese.

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