How to assign hotkeys to Google Chrome extensions

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Extensions allow you to equip your browser with many additional features. Some of them are used so often that it would be good to assign them keyboard shortcuts.

For example, you use Google Play Music a lot. Every time you need to pause playback or select a different track, you need to switch to the corresponding tab, look for the desired button there, and then return to the one in which you just worked. It takes seconds, but count how many similar operations you perform each day.

To save time and not be distracted, you should use hotkeys for extensions. To do this, open the Chrome settings, navigate to the extensions section and scroll to the bottom of the page.

Here you will see a link "Shortcuts", which should be clicked. A pop-up window will appear in front of you, in which you can set the keyboard shortcuts convenient for you to perform the necessary operations. If, of course, the developer of the extension has taken care of this.

The developers of the Google Play Music extension have provided such a function, so that now you can switch tracks and pause playback without taking your hands off the keyboard.

In the same way, you can speed up not only music management, but also some other operations you need. For example, hide the extension button on the browser toolbar and call it only with a specially assigned combination of buttons.

This function works not only in Chrome, but also in all browsers based on it, including Vivaldi, Opera and Yandex. Browser.