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I can press Cmd-L to get to the address bar, but I can't find a keystroke to bring me back to the page. It sounds like Esc works on Windows, but it doesn't work on the Mac. Is there an equivalent?
Peeja
Posted 2010-11-24T17:00:57.003
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This question is also asked separately, and another highly upvoted answer is given here: https://superuser.com/a/324267/54335 which relies on creating a new search engine with a short keyword.
ezrock
Posted 2010-11-24T17:00:57.003
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How about this method using the browser's search:
It's a bit of a kludge, but it's fewer keystrokes than the tab solution proposed. With the tab solution, I have to tab over each of the Chrome extension icons and each item in my bookmarks bar before I get to the main window.
Doug Harris
Posted 2010-11-24T17:00:57.003
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1good idea, but requires - to me - too much cognitive load for that simple task. – Martin – 2016-09-15T07:33:53.143
1I like this the most so far because it requires no extra configuration. There is another solution in the accepted answer's link which requires setting up custom javascript search engine entries. The Ctrl-F solution will work regardless of what computer or VM I am on. – Shadoninja – 2016-09-29T19:58:56.587
1This solution moves the current scroll position of the browser view to the first match of the single character. – Rhys van der Waerden – 2017-02-15T20:58:24.727
Also wanted to not that this method also requires that the web page has an 'f' in it. Or at least some text so we can search a different letter. – Jesse Reza Khorasanee – 2019-08-13T03:33:11.563
on Mac it's enough just to press Cmd+F (search) and Esc to return focus on page. Thanks for idea – Sneg – 2019-12-09T19:48:12.213
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As per @Peeja's request, making my comment an answer:
How about 2x Tab?
Of course, it only works without any bars between location and web page. So hide the bookmark bar using Cmd-Shift-B temporarily.
Another option is (ab)using the Find related shortcuts to be able to move the page. If you're focusing the location bar, and press Cmd-F/G, any up/down key presses are forwarded to the web page view, as long as the find widget is open.
Unfortunately, neither the Chrome scripting dictionary nor the Chrome help were particularly useful.
You can (in theory) execute JavaScript via
tell application "Google Chrome"
tell window 1
tell tab 1
execute javascript "window.document.focus();"
end tell
end tell
end tell
But it doesn't work as expected.
You can use Typinator or a similar tool and create a hotkey that enters javascript:enter. This will "leave" the location bar by entering an empty javascript command.
Daniel Beck
Posted 2010-11-24T17:00:57.003
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@Peeja definitely not a solution if you have a bookmark bar with a lot of bookmarks. It will focus each one before focusing the document! – Martin – 2016-09-15T07:31:48.880
My Chrome doesn't. The bookmarks all come after the address bar in the tab order, not before. – Peeja – 2016-09-15T19:48:38.943
2My final solution: Shift-Tab four times. That tabs backwards past the four navigation buttons to the left of the address bar and back to the page. I bound this to a keyboard shortcut with Butler. (Typinator would work too.) Unfortunately, there's no way to make it only work in the right context: if I press it when the address bar isn't focused all sorts of things could happen. But it'll do. Thanks for the ideas and the thorough research! – Peeja – 2010-11-28T23:20:08.000
That doesn't work if you have extensions. Tab tabs through those first. – Bjorn – 2010-12-01T03:36:42.007
5How about 2x Tab? – Daniel Beck – 2010-11-24T17:25:45.343
Under what conditions would you like to leave the address bar without pressing return? – fideli – 2010-11-24T20:13:40.297
5@fideli: If you change your mind, for example. – Paused until further notice. – 2010-11-24T21:34:26.377
Tab works on Windows, Esc doesn't. – Paused until further notice. – 2010-11-24T21:35:15.753
3@fideli: I often go to the address bar to copy the URL, then want to get back to the page. Most commonly I want to grab a Gmail URL to send to OmniFocus, then go back to interacting with Gmail with the keyboard. – Peeja – 2010-11-25T01:58:50.303
@Daniel: Ah, I see. That does work, if I have Full Keyboard Access off in the system Keyboard settings. If I have it on though (which I normally do), I have to tab past all of my bookmarks. Post that as an answer: I'll accept it if no one comes up with anything better. – Peeja – 2010-11-25T02:04:29.287
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@Peeja: Makes sense now. Not the answer to your question, but it appears that the latest beta for Chrome uses the OmniFocus clipping service.
– fideli – 2010-11-25T03:26:12.730