Shortcuts for Chrome

Shortcuts is a browser extension that lets you perform common tasks with your keyboard.

Documentation | Changelog | Contributing

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Features

• Lets you bind actions to keyboard shortcuts by using the “Extension shortcuts” interface.
• Actions can be performed with keyboard shortcuts or mouse clicks in the extension’s popup.
• Implements a self-contained “Vim” mode and searchable command palette in the extension’s popup.

What is Shortcuts not?

Here are some features that Shortcuts won’t implement.

• Vim-like keyboard shortcuts outside the popup.
• Custom actions.
• Link hinting. See the excellent Link Hints extension.

Installation

Important

Requires either Chrome 127+, Chrome Dev or Chrome Canary for sticky popup—to keep the popup open after entering a command. See https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40057101 and Chrome 127: New action.openPopup API for more information.

Chrome Web Store

Add to Chrome

Nightly builds

Download the Nightly builds.

Build from source

Install curl and Inkscape to get and build the images.

git clone https://github.com/taupiqueur/chrome-shortcuts.git
cd chrome-shortcuts
make build

Load an unpacked extension

1. Navigate to chrome://extensions.
2. Enable “Developer mode”.
3. Click “Load unpacked” and select the extension directory.

Documentation

See the manual for setup and usage instructions.

Shortcuts is also documented via the extension’s internal pages—Right-click the Shortcuts toolbar button and select “Documentation”.

Contributing

Report bugs on the issue tracker, ask questions on the IRC channel, send patches on the mailing list.