How do I drop down the Google Chrome menus with the keyboard?

Question

The Google Chrome Page and Tools menus have no visible mnemonic that indicates how to drop them down with the keyboard. Is there a way?

sirlancelot · Answer 1 · 2010-01-26 00:10:31Z

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answered Jan 26 '10 at 0:10

sirlancelot
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bakasan · Answer 2 · 2010-01-25 21:38:47Z

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Doesn't work on Mac.

Tried Cmd E/F, Alt E/F, and Ctrl E/F

None do anything. Then again, Mac Chrome currently doesn't even have a damn bookmark manager.

answered Jan 25 '10 at 21:38

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Jeff Atwood · Answer 3 · 2010-01-25 20:41:27Z

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to navigate all the Google Chrome menus, per

Shift+Alt+T: Set keyboard focus on the Google Chrome toolbar. Use your right and left arrow keys to navigate to different buttons on the toolbar.

answered Jan 25 '10 at 20:41

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	True, but that's like me asking out to drop down the Tools menu in Explorer and answering "F10". It's taking the long way. – Kevin Dente Jan 25 '10 at 20:47
	Additional tip for this: if you press the down arrow to expand either of the drop down menus, hit ESC to be back at the parent level where you can then continue using left and arrow keys. – Nick Josevski Jan 25 '10 at 22:10

Kevin Dente · Answer 4 · 2010-01-25 20:38:51Z

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Alt-E drops down the Page menu Alt-F drops down the Tools menu (wrench)

answered Jan 25 '10 at 20:38

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	Note this tested on Chrome 4.0 for Windows. – Kevin Dente Jan 25 '10 at 20:54
	This answer made my hair grow back and made me more virile! – ScottKoon Jan 25 '10 at 21:07
	Tested and works on Chrome 4.0.249.43 for Ubuntu 9.10. – Sam Merrell Jan 25 '10 at 21:57

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