How can I set a keyboard shortcut for accessing Chrome's settings?

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I know that settings can be accessed via the url chrome://chrome/settings/.But keyboard shortcut will be useful.

Mentioning or tagging the OS will be very helpful for the people to answer your query. — avirk, Nov 22 '12 at 13:44
You can also create a bookmark or a [URL shortcut](http://superuser.com/questions/468547/how-can-i-create-a-url-shortcut-in-chrome) to `chrome://chrome/settings/` to access it quickly. — amiregelz, Nov 22 '12 at 21:46
@amiregelz: You could hotkey it up using https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-toolbox-by-google/fjccknnhdnkbanjilpjddjhmkghmachn — Oliver Salzburg, Nov 22 '12 at 22:24

Karl Horky · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-26T01:02:59.557

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You can select it with the menu shortcut. Alt+e will open the Chrome menu and then from there s will open Settings.

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answered Nov 25 '12 at 14:24

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This doesn't work on full screen mode though... – Metafaniel Oct 27 '16 at 17:49
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@Metafaniel: https://superuser.com/a/1086653/861081 – Nikhil Agrawal Jan 11 '18 at 00:44
this does not work for me is this because another program is overriding this shortcut perhaps? or has something changed since 2012? – Chagai Friedlander Apr 10 '20 at 08:46

score 11 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 22 '13 at 02:36

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There are actually three methods:

Alt+F then press S
Alt+E then press S
F10 then Enter and then press S

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answered Sep 22 '13 at 02:11

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This doesn't work on full screen mode sadly... – Metafaniel Oct 27 '16 at 17:50
wonder how does F and E combination also work – Blue Print Jul 13 '23 at 09:41

score 6 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 08 '16 at 01:26

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Use the clear browser cache shortcut key then escape

Ctrl+Shift+Delete then Esc

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Awesome this works in full screen mode too. +1 – Nikhil Agrawal Jan 11 '18 at 00:44
This is the best answer. It even works in kiosk mode, which none of the other methods I've tried did. – Tomas Eklund Oct 03 '22 at 13:06

score 2 · Answer 4 · edited Nov 22 '12 at 13:16

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Default shortcut on mac chrome is Cmd+,. There should be same or about same on other systems

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I think this one is Mac only, it doesn't exists on Windows – Metafaniel Oct 27 '16 at 17:50

avirk · Answer 5 · 2012-11-25T13:46:13.970

You can't do it within Chrome as they have not provide any shortcut for this in my knowledge (anyone can correct me if I'm wrong). You have to download the AutoHotKey and then install it on your system, now copy the following script and paste it on notepad and save it with extension .ahk where you can access it easily, now when you launch the Chrome just launch it with that.

SetTitleMatchMode, RegEx

#IfWinActive, - Google Chrome$

^M::
            ControlFocus, Chrome_OmniboxView1


Send chrome://chrome/settings/{Enter}

return

Now when you will press Ctrl+M then it will open the setting page for your Chrome. You can bind other key instead of M, you have to just repalce it with your desired one. Also If you want to use it with Alt key then replace the key ^ with !.

Edit: Also take a look at the Shortcut Manger plugin for Chrome.

from chrome 32 the ControlFocus's `ClassNN` no longer works, but the macro can be easily changed to `^M:::Send !es` as @Karl suggests. — dwelle, Mar 25 '14 at 09:58

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Sep 30 '13 at 21:10

You can use Ferro to open the settings page and other pages, including "chrome://extensions", using only your keyboard. Alt-Shift-F, start typing the name of the chrome page you want (eg "settings"), and hit enter once what you want is the top suggestion.

Ferro: the keyboard interface to Chrome

How can I set a keyboard shortcut for accessing Chrome's settings?

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