All right, Android fans: Today's tip is for you. Well, kind of. It's actually related to Chrome for Windows. But if you carry an Android phone and also use a Windows computer - whether at work or at home - there's a decent chance you use Chrome on the desktop, too. I do - and I've lost count of the number of the times I've accidentally closed all my active Chrome tabs because I hit Ctrl-Shift-Q by mistake. Ctrl-Shift-Q, if you aren't familiar, is a native Chrome shortcut that closes every tab and window you have open without warning.
Ctrl+Enter was standard in Windows, the relative standard in Mac is Command+Enter. Its frustrating use Command+Enter for all standard execute/go actions (eg. Autocomplete url in firefox, build and run in XCode, etc.) and then come to Chrome and use Ctrl+Enter, which is not very ergonomically comfortable on Mac keyboards. Is Chrome suddenly running slow? It could be a rogue extension or webpage sucking up your resources. Identify the culprit using the task manager. Launch Apps on the Shelf. Applications pinned to the Shelf (the bar at the bottom of the screen in Chrome OS) can be opened using a keyboard shortcut.
It's infuriatingly close to Ctrl-Shift-Tab, a shortcut that shifts your focus back to the previous tab in your current window. That's what I'm typically trying to do when I hit 'Q' instead of 'Tab' by mistake. Man, is that annoying. And I'm not the only one who's been bamboozled by how easy it is to activate that nuclear option. Follow on Twitter: Multiple threads in the public Chromium issue-tracker of having a keyboard command that closes everything you're working on so swiftly.
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According to one, which and is now marked as 'closed,' the Chrome development team at some point of implementing any sort of confirmation or warning into the shortcut. Instead, the focus is apparently now on tweaking the shortcut so you'd have to hold Ctrl-Shift-Q for a certain amount of time before the fatal tab-closing commences - thus making the command less likely to be activated by mistake. A still-active thread has been around for nearly four years, though, and has yet to be resolved.
As one Chromium team member back in February of 2016: This is marked high priority, but it's been open for three years. Almost no one is defending the current behavior, but we've been in stalemate because no one's made a decision about if and how we should address this. So there you have it. We could debate all day whether there's any real reason to even have a shortcut that closes all of your Chrome tabs in one fell swoop (seriously, does anyone actually use this thing intentionally?) - but for now, at least, the reality is that it's there.
And it's all too easy to hit by mistake. The good news, though, is while Google itself may not be scrambling to implement a fix, there are some relatively simple steps you can take to keep yourself from Ctrl-Shift-Q'ing your brains out. All you've gotta do is:. Type chrome:extensions into your browser's address bar. This will pull up the Chrome Extensions page. Scroll all the way down to the very bottom of the page and click the link labeled 'Keyboard shortcuts.'
. Pick an extension, any extension - then click the box alongside it. (Don't have any available extensions in your list? (Really?!) Go install something simple and innocuous like the, then go back to step 1 and start again.). When the box is active and ready for input, it'll turn a different color and say 'Type a shortcut.' Make sure you see that text before proceeding to the next step; otherwise, you'll inadvertently activate the blasted Ctrl-Shift-Q command and cause all your tabs to close in the midst of this.
Once you're sure the box is active, press Ctrl-Shift-Q on your keyboard, then click 'OK' at the bottom of the screen. Jr That's it! What you've effectively just done is overridden Chrome's native Ctrl-Shift-Q shortcut with a custom Ctrl-Shift-Q shortcut of your own. So the next time your fingers accidentally hit that dreaded key combo, all that'll happen is that the extension you picked will open. No tossed-away tabs, no cursing, no furious desk-pounding. It's definitely more of a workaround than a proper fix, but it's the best we've got for now - and all it takes is one accidental complete-tab-shutdown to know that it's much better than the alternative.
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Main article: Keyboard shortcuts are a common aspect of most modern operating systems and associated software applications. Their use is pervasive enough that some users consider them an important element of their routine interactions with a computer. Whether used as a matter of personal preference or for, the pervasiveness of common conventions means that a meaningful comparison of keyboard shortcuts can be made across various widely used operating systems. Cells with a yellow background in the tables below denote Apple's. General shortcuts A note regarding 's shortcuts is that they can be changed and the below list contains the defaults.
Some of the combinations are not true for localized versions of operating systems. For example, in a non-English version of Windows, the Edit menu is not always bound to the E shortcut. Furthermore, many shortcuts (such as Ctrl+ Z, Alt+ E, etc.) are just common conventions and are not handled by the operating system.
Whether such commands are implemented (or not) depends on how an actual application program (such as an editor) is written. Not all applications follow (all of) these conventions, so if it doesn't work, it isn't compatible. Action / Alt+ F, or F10 then F Ctrl+ F2, then F Alt+ F Meta+ `, then f Alt+ f (gvim) or Ctrl+ e (vim + NERDTree) Ctrl+ O Alt+ E Ctrl+ F2, then E Alt+ E Meta+ `, then e Alt+ e (gvim) View menu Alt+ V Ctrl+ F2, then V Alt+ V the last operation Ctrl+ Z, or Alt+ Backspace ⌘ Cmd+ Z Ctrl+ Z Ctrl+ x, then u or Ctrl+ / or Ctrl+ or Undo u Ctrl+ Z the last operation Ctrl+ Y, or Shift+ Alt+ Backspace ⇧ Shift+ ⌘ Cmd+ Z ⇧ Shift+ Ctrl+ Z, or Ctrl+ Y Same as undo, when undo is exhausted, it redoes. Move the cursor after one or more undos, and further undos will be redos. ^ Highlighted shortcuts are from the list of. ^ Requires full keyboard access active: System Preferences Keyboard Keyboard Shortcuts Full Keyboard Access All Controls Alternatively use Ctrl+ F7 to toggle this setting.
Takes you to the 'Switch User' screen when has been enabled (enabled by default in XP). Shows task manager in Windows XP if the welcome screen is enabled. Otherwise displays an NT-style menu, with the option of launching the task manager; likewise for Vista. ^ On Mac OS, OS X, and macOS, the key commonly called ↵ Enter is properly called ↩ Return, while ⌅ Enter is a separate key normally located on the or invoked as ⌥ Opt+ ↩ Return (mainly on keyboards without a numeric keypad).
For the concept of 'selected text' see also. In whole document (%), substitute ( s) fosh by fish, don't stop at one substitution per line ( g) and ask for confirmation for each substitution ( c). ^ In Microsoft Windows, all shortcuts with Alt+ Space followed by another key are language dependent. The Alt+ Space combination opens the window menu, and the following key selects from the menu.
As the menu labels (and their underlined hotkeys) vary with the Windows system language, the hotkeys are different for international versions of Microsoft Windows, and may change if users change their Windows system language preference. The given examples are valid for English user preferences/version of Windows. The WinSplit window manager application for Windows knows to emulate this behaviour. There is no single consistent shortcut for closing a document or quitting an application in Windows XP.
In many applications, Ctrl+ W or Ctrl+ F4 closes a document and Alt+ F4 quits. In other applications where each document is in its own window, such as later versions of, Ctrl+ W, Ctrl+ F4, and Alt+ F4 close a document, and there is no consistent shortcut for quitting an application. macOS uses ⌘ Cmd+ W Close (window), ⌘ Cmd+ Q Quit (application), and ⌘ Cmd+ ⌥ Opt+ Esc Force Quit (application); ⌥ Option+ F4 can be used to quit certain services or applications. Quit is closest to Kill. References. Article: HT2490. Retrieved 2010-11-03.
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