Is there a keyboard shortcut for opening a tab in a new window on Chrome?

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I'm aware this question was asked five years ago, but maybe there's been some changes since then. I'm also aware of the 'multiple keyboard shortcuts' that can be used.

In these days of sharing Zoom screens, I'm constantly finding myself right-clicking on tabs in order to open them in a new window. I find this a little fiddly - particularly if I'm using the trackpad.

Does a keyboard shortcut for this operation exist yet, or is CMD L, CMD C etc. still the only way to achieve this?

Would it be OK just to move the tab to a new window, not keeping it in the current window? Because that can be done with simple drag & drop — Laurent S., Jan 17 '21 at 18:54
Ah Laurent, this is excellent advice and is certainly the quickest way of doing it. Many thanks! — fatar760, Jan 17 '21 at 20:20
Those old enough to remember life before browser tabs are surprised to see this question — Sridhar Sarnobat, Jan 18 '21 at 01:27
Why is that, Sridhar? (I should add that i remember life before browser tabs!) — fatar760, Jan 18 '21 at 19:16
Does this answer your question? [Keyboard shortcut to pull Google Chrome tab into its own window](https://superuser.com/questions/182720/keyboard-shortcut-to-pull-google-chrome-tab-into-its-own-window) — Darren Shewry, May 10 '22 at 09:32

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Aug 12 '21 at 23:34

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If you want to open a new tab in the same chrome window simply press Ctrl+T

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answered Jan 17 '21 at 10:40

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Thanks, but that's not what I asked; I'm looking to add the tab in a new window. Thank you for the reply though. – fatar760 Jan 17 '21 at 10:42
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@fatar760 Ctrl + N if you want to open a new tab in a new google window. Is this what you want to ask? – Jitendra Singh Jan 17 '21 at 10:45
I'm wishing to move an already opened tab to a new window. At the moment I need to right click on the tab in order to open it in a new window. Is there a keyboard shortcut for this action instead of right clicking? Sorry for the confusion. – fatar760 Jan 17 '21 at 11:07
The quickest way is to **drag the tab** label down and let the solo tab float. Is that a keyboard shortcut, no. But as your request just snowballed from "opening a tab in a new window on Chrome" into a different question, maybe we can take a slight liberty, too. – Yosef Baskin Jan 17 '21 at 20:38
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The question never changed, Yosef, but yes your advice matches Laurent's from earlier, which works a treat. Thank you for your input. – fatar760 Jan 17 '21 at 21:26

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 12 '21 at 23:33

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Shift+W opens existing Tab in a new window. Tested on several Chromium based browsers at Windows 10

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Shift + W did not work for me. I'm on a mac... – fatar760 Jan 17 '21 at 11:08
What is your exact Browser and version on Mac? – lluke Jan 17 '21 at 11:42
I'm on a macbook pro and I'm using Google Chrome. – fatar760 Jan 17 '21 at 11:47
You can try to install Brave Browser (chromium based) and see it it still happen. https://brave.com/download/ . Is your chrome uptodate? – lluke Jan 17 '21 at 11:54
Yeh my Chrome is up to date. Is there a shortcut for normal Google Chrome? – fatar760 Jan 17 '21 at 12:03
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This doesn't work for me neither on a up-to-date chrome on Windows 10... – Laurent S. Jan 17 '21 at 18:52

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 18 '21 at 08:52

Assuming you don't indeed want to keep the same page opened twice in existing window + new window, you can simply drag & drop the tab out of the current browser window, opening a new one with only this tab. I've tested this with Edge, Firefox and Chrome and the behavior seems to be consistent across these browsers.

Is there a keyboard shortcut for opening a tab in a new window on Chrome?

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