Chrome Keyboard Shortcuts — FULL Navigation Layer (2026)

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.

Four Default Shortcuts

These four commands run from the service worker, so they fire on any page. On internal pages such as chrome:// URLs and the Chrome Web Store, Alt+K opens the command palette in a new tab instead.

All four keys are Chrome’s suggested defaults, and each can be changed in Chrome’s shortcut manager. If a binding collides with another extension’s, Chrome silently drops the collision. A fifth registered command, New empty workspace, ships without a default shortcut.

The command palette (Alt+K) is its own feature with dedicated documentation at 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:

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 the clickable elements on the current page. Type the badge to click it.

The peek and background chords cover link and URL targets; non-link targets fall back to a normal click.

The trigger key is configurable to Hold Alt, Hold Ctrl, or Press / (a vimium-style modal that stays active until Escape). If you pick Hold Alt as trigger, the Glance Peek modifier switches 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:

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 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.