Cool Chrome Trick : Open New Tab from Addressbar

by Dinu on 27/11/2009



Yes, I would call this trick “CooL” .. It really is.

It works like this, suppose you have google.com open on a tab, and you want to open yahoo.com on another tab, what you usually do is, open a new tab by clicking the ‘+’ icon,  and type in the address, and hit enter.  Right ?

Chrome New Tab

Instead of this, what if you could type in yahoo.com on the current tab ( where you have google.com open ) hit ALT and Enter key together, and open it on a different tab ? In other words, you are on a tab, you enter a different address or a search keyword on the addressbar, and you get it open in a new tab.

Like it ? I did !  Try it, you will definitely like it !!

via: chrome.blogspot.com

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s4n705h November 30, 2009 at 8:29 pm

this is good. i face this problem lotts of time and than have to do a copy paste. but this is surely nice shortcut

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chrome story November 30, 2009 at 9:03 pm

Yes it is !!

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amir May 25, 2010 at 10:26 pm

any way to change this to the default action ?
(like tabmixplus for firefox)

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chrome story May 26, 2010 at 12:12 am

hi, sorry, I didnt understand your question !

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Alison June 1, 2010 at 9:27 pm

Wanting to know how to do this as well. What amir means is, how can we make it the default behavior to always open addresses in a new tab without having to do a key combo or some other nonsense. TabMixPlus is a popular addon for firefox that allows you to set what things are automatically opened in a new tab as well as many other things.

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Peter Hoeg January 14, 2011 at 3:43 pm

Another option is CTRL-T (to open a new tab), ALT+D (or CTRL-L) to go to the address line, type “yahoo” (without quotes) in the address bar and hit CTRL+Enter to automatically turn “yahoo” into “www.yahoo.com”.

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oyi kresnamurti November 10, 2011 at 12:02 pm

@peter hoeg: yeah that’s the trick. it also can combined with this ALT+ENTER tip too. so you just press ALT+D to go to address bar, typing the dotcom domain name such as google, yahoo or facebook then press ALT+CTRL+ENTER. Yeeeha, it will be opened on the new tab including the dot com too. Great!

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