Is there a keyboard short cut, or extension, that lets you rip a tab into a new window in Google Chrome instead of using the mouse?

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A workaround would be: F6, Ctrl + C, Ctrl + N, Ctrl + V, Enter and an optional Alt + Tab, Ctrl + W, Alt + Tab, to close the old tab.

You could automate the whole thing with AutoIt (under Windows) and create a Hotkey for it (here, it's Ctrl + Alt + x):

HotKeySet("^!x", "split_tab")
Func split_tab()
    Send("{F6}^c^n")
    Sleep(999)
    Send("^v{Enter}")
    Send("!{Tab}^w!{Tab}")
EndFunc

I always have an additional application like this running in the background, offering useful keyboard shortcuts which automate and simplify tasks.

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Hi Johannes, welcome to Super User! We generally speak English here, so I took the liberty of translating your answer. – slhck Sep 22 '11 at 10:20
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@slhck: Oh thanks, I'm sorry... business blindness ;-) – Johannes Thomas Meyer Sep 22 '11 at 13:40
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There doesn't appear to be a keyboard short cut built in. Maybe auto-hot-keys can be used, but I'm not familiar with them. I'm also assuming that you already know that dragging the tab out creates the tabs own window.

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Ya, I know that dragging does that. I just wanted to see if there was a way to do it without the mouse. – Stephen Aug 31 '10 at 19:13
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