# Chrome Keyboard Shortcuts — FULL Navigation Layer (2026)

> Every Chrome navigation action on a keyboard shortcut. Tab switching, peek, hint badges, command palette — all configurable, none requiring the mouse.

- Canonical: https://www.superchargebrowser.com/features/keybindings/
- Extension: navigation
- Published: 2026-05-18
- Updated: 2026-08-10
- Source: SuperchargeBrowser (https://www.superchargebrowser.com)

You open a new tab, reach for the mouse, click the tab strip, miss, click again. Twenty seconds gone. Multiply that across a workday and the friction adds up before you notice the wrist strain.

SuperchargeNavigation maps every tab management action to a keyboard shortcut. Side panel, command palette, tab grouping, link preview, cycling through tabs, even clicking links without touching the mouse. The shortcuts are individually toggleable and rebindable through Chrome's native shortcut manager.

## The Four Core Shortcuts

Chrome extensions can register up to four system-level commands. These run from the service worker — they work from any page, even `chrome://` URLs and the CWS:

| Shortcut | Action | Toggleable |
|----------|--------|-----------|
| `Alt+B` | Open / close the side panel tab manager | Yes |
| `Alt+K` | Open the command palette | Yes |
| `Alt+G` | Smart-group all tabs by domain | Yes |
| `Alt+Shift+G` | Ungroup all tabs in this window | Yes |

All four default keys can be changed in Chrome's shortcut manager — one button in Navigation settings takes you directly there. Chrome handles OS-level conflict detection so you won't accidentally shadow a system shortcut.

The command palette (`Alt+K`) is its own feature with dedicated documentation at [Tab Search](/features/tab-search/). It fuzzy-searches your open tabs, falls through to a web search if nothing matches, and surfaces extra commands when SuperchargePerformance is installed.

## Content-Script Shortcuts

These run in pages via injected content scripts. They cover the interactions that Chrome's command API can't reach:

| Shortcut | Action | Default |
|----------|--------|---------|
| `Alt+Click` | Peek any link in an inline overlay | On (requires Peek enabled) |
| `Alt+Wheel` | Cycle through open tabs | On |
| `Shift+Wheel` | Cycle within the active tab group only | Off |
| `Alt+↑/↓` | Cycle tabs with arrow keys | Off |
| `↑/↓` | Smooth arrow scroll (speed: Slow/Default/Fast) | Off |
| `Alt+Shift+P` | Pause all Nav shortcuts on this hostname | Always available |

Arrow tab navigation and arrow scroll are both off by default to avoid conflicts with existing keyboard habits. Turn them on in settings if you want fully mouse-free tab switching.

## Hint Mode — Click Anything Without the Mouse

Hold `Shift` and letter badges appear over every clickable element on the current page. Type the badge to click it. This is the same model as Vimium's `f` key, with three modifier variants:

| Chord | Action |
|-------|--------|
| Hold `Shift` → type badge | Click target |
| Hold `Shift+Alt` → type badge | Peek target in overlay |
| Hold `Shift+Ctrl` → type badge | Open target in background tab |

The trigger key is configurable to `Hold Alt`, `Hold Ctrl`, or `Press /` (vimium-style modal that stays active until Escape). Chord modifiers auto-swap when the trigger collides — if you pick `Hold Alt` as trigger, the peek modifier shifts to `Shift` automatically.

Hints stay off in text inputs, when you have text selected, and on `chrome://` pages. Configurable per-hostname via `Alt+Shift+P`.

## Type-to-Select

Without entering hint mode, bare letter typing highlights every visible text match on the page. Works like browser Find but keyboard-action focused:

| Input | Action |
|-------|--------|
| Type text | Highlight all matches (CSS Custom Highlight API) |
| `Enter` | Activate the top match |
| `Alt+Enter` | Peek-search the matched text on Google |
| `Ctrl+Enter` | Search it in a background tab, using your default search engine |

Fast text selection extends this: `Shift+←/→` selects by word, `Shift+↑/↓` by line, `Shift+A` expands to the surrounding block (paragraph, list item, article element).

Type-to-select is on by default as of v1.3.0; fast text selection is off by default. Type-to-select requires a page without a focused input. Nav detects this automatically and skips activation when focus is in a form field.

## Conflict Resolution and Per-Site Pausing

Every Chrome-registered command has an individual toggle in Navigation settings. If `Alt+G` clashes with a shortcut you use elsewhere, turn it off without touching the other three.

For sites with their own keyboard layers (Figma, Notion, Linear, Photopea), press `Alt+Shift+P` on the page. All Navigation content-script shortcuts — hints, type-to-select, Alt+wheel, peek, rocker gestures, super drag — pause for that hostname. The list is editable in settings and persists across sessions.

[The in-page sidebar](/in-page-sidebar/) and command palette are registered at the Chrome system level, so they continue working even on paused sites.

## Privacy

All shortcut state and per-site pause lists are stored in `chrome.storage.local`. No keystrokes are logged, no settings are sent to any server. The extension runs 100% locally with no account required.

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Canonical URL: https://www.superchargebrowser.com/features/keybindings/