I'm using Jupyter notebooks in the Chrome browser. I've installed nbextensions and am using the emacs keybindings. Most keys work as expected, even those that conflict with Chrome shortcuts, like ctrl-P. But ctrl-N still opens a new window. I've tried Shortkeys, with which I can set ctrl-N to "do nothing", but it is not passed through to the notebook. I tried AutoControl Shortcut Manager and have the same problem.
Old answers to this question say that you can't override ctrl-N at all, which is no longer true in the newer versions of Chrome, but how do you stop the default behavior and allow the key to pass through to the page?
You can do this with AutoControl Shortcut Manager by using the SYNTHESIZE INPUT action to send a synthetic Ctrl+N from the inside of the webpage.
That way, the webpage will respond to the shortcut but not the browser.
This is how you do it:
Set Ctrl+N as the trigger
Choose SYNTHESIZE INPUT as the action and enter the keystroke Ctrl+N
Select option Send from the inside of webpage
Now, whenever you press Ctrl+N, Chrome will do nothing, but the webpage will receive the keystroke and will react to it.
Of course, you'd only want to do this on those Jupyter Notebook pages, so make sure you add a URL condition to that trigger.
In Google Chrome, I can type the following in a new browser:
pycharm://open?file=file_name
and press Enter. The result is that PyCharm IDE will launch and open the specified file. I have also come across similar links that launch other applications.
I tried to look for information about such links but did not reach any conclusions. Specifically, I would like to know:
what is the name of such a link?
who defines those links? Since I cannot find any documentation about those links on PyCharm's side, I am led to think that those links are some form of standard command that work for every external application?
how do those links work under the hood? Is it the browser spawning a new subprocess or does the browser somehow communicate the command to the OS which takes it from there?
I can also do the above programmatically:
window.open('pycharm://open?file=file_name', '_top');
How can I ensure that the focus switches to the target application? (Right now the application does indeed start, but the focus stays on Chrome.)
I want to change Accept-language request header to anything I wanted in chrome, is there any extension or plugin where I can do it. I want to be able to change locale and language both. Main requirement is changing the locale.
Open chrome, go to chrome://settings/languages
On the left, you should see a list of languages. Use mouse to drag the language you want to the top, that will change the order for the values in Accept-language of requests.
If you still don't see the language you prefer, it may be cookies. Go to cookies and clean it up you should be good.
Feb, 2022 Update:
On Chrome, press F12 to open Developer Tools:
Then, press Esc to open another panel which has Sensors tab:
Finally, you can set the Locale like "ja-JP" by choosing the Location, "Tokyo" as shown below:
If there isn't Sensors tab, you can open it from the 3 dots as shown below:
I use this function for testing internationally launched website.
Based from this thread, you need to bookmark chrome://settings/languages and then Drag and Drop the language to make it default. You have to click on the Display Google Chrome in this Language button and completely restart Chrome.
[on hold: broken in Chrome 72; reported to work in Chrome 71]
The "Quick Language Switcher" extension may help too:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quick-language-switcher/pmjbhfmaphnpbehdanbjphdcniaelfie
The Quick Language Switcher extension allows the user to supersede the locale the browser is currently using in favor of the value chosen through the extension.
To see what's your current locale, do
Intl.NumberFormat().resolvedOptions().locale
in Dev Tools > console. (more details)
The top answer here is both outdated, and does NOT work in Mac OS (November 2021).
The official answer is available at:
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/i18n/#how-to-set-browsers-locale
Windows: Using the UI
Here's how to change the locale using the UI on Google Chrome for Windows:
App icon > Options
Choose the Under the Hood tab
Scroll down to Web Content
Click Change font and language settings
Choose the Languages tab
Use the drop down to set the Google Chrome language
Restart Chrome
Mac OS X
To change the locale on Mac, you use the system preferences.
From the Apple menu, choose System Preferences
Under the Personal section, choose International
Choose your language and location
Restart Chrome
Linux
To change the locale on Linux, first quit Google Chrome. Then, all in one line, set the LANGUAGE environment variable and launch Google Chrome. For example:
LANGUAGE=es ./chrome
Chrome OS
To change the locale on Chrome OS:
From the system tray, choose Settings.
Under the Languages and input section, choose the Language dropdown.
If your language is not listed, click Add languages and add it.
Once added, click the the 3-dot More actions menu item next to your language and choose Display Chrome OS in this language.
Click the Restart button that appears next to the set language to restart Chrome OS.
Use ModHeader Chrome extension.
Or you can try more complex value like Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9,ru;q=0.8,th;q=0.7
There is an article written by the devtools team describing how change the location settings in Chrome for testing purposes: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/device-mode/geolocation
The easiest way I found, summarized in a few pictures:
You could skip a few steps (up to step 4) by simply navigating to chrome://settings/languages right away.
I know this is a very old post but I was searching for a solution to define language for chrome without even starting it or update the exe shortcut.
It is possible to force a language and a locale for chrome with the registry on windows.
You need 2 keys to be changed WITH ADMIN RIGHTS :
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Policies\Google\Chrome]
"ApplicationLocaleValue"="fr"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Policies\Google\Chrome\ForcedLanguages]
"1"="fr-FR"
This is forcing the language so all users will not be able to update it with the Chorme UI.
If you need to force a language and be able to modify it with the UI, maybe there is a solution on the official Documentation linked below.
Official Documentation :
ApplicationLocaleValue
ForcedLanguages
Best regards.
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I haven't been able to find an extension or built-in way to get this functionality.
I have seen a couple of hacks on the web, but none that work properly. Eg this standalone application:
https://github.com/acemtp/chrome_mru
Yes, there is a perfectly working solution.
This extension Tab Thumbnails Switcher can redefine Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab to select tabs in MRU order the same way you swich between programs with Alt+Tab in Windows.
The best part is that the tab selector box is implemented natively, so it doesn't need to inject javascript on each tab for it to work. It works reliably on all tabs.
There's also a demonstrative video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HC7_EI8db4
Another option I just found Yesterday (and until now it seems to work very well) is: AutoControl Shortcut Manager: https://www.autocontrol.app/switch-to-last-used-tab-in-chrome#MRU-tabs
Steps:
Install chrome extension: AutoControl Shortcut Manager
Install also the required exe file: Native-Component.exe (It will be prompted to be downloaded after the extension is installed. For me it didn't require admin rights. I hope it's ok ...)
Configure the extension based on the tutorial (9 steps) from the official web page: Cycle through all tabs in MRU order
Enjoy ctrl+tab behavior :)
I was able to get the chrome_mru tool working by changing the nHotKeyChar variable from 0xde to 0xc0 (from tilde ~ to tick `) and recompiling.
Then I realized this is the same thing AutoHotkey does using this script with the Recent Tabs Chrome extension.
The AutoHotkey/Recent tabs solution is suboptimal, yes, but I think it is the best we can hope for until Chrome implements this feature (if ever /sigh).
I now found a possiblity to achieve this for users working on Windows and wrote an extension:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ctrl%2Btab-mru/ialfjajikhdldpgcfglgndennidgkhik
Complete solution for setting up Ctrl+Tab to use MRU switching on Windows:
First download an MRU extension for Chrome. After trying a few different such extensions, I recommend Ctrl+Tab MRU. It's not perfect, but it's the best one I could find.
Next, you need to bind the hotkeys for your selected extension to a key combination. Go to chrome://extensions/, scroll down to the bottom of the page, click "Keyboard shortcuts", and find the shortcuts for the extension you selected. Unfortunately, Chrome doesn't let you bind Ctrl+Tab as a keyboard shortcut, so instead choose a combo that Chrome does let you select, like Ctrl+Q for "Switch to older tab" and Ctrl+Shift+Q for "Switch to newer tab".
Now we need to set things up so that Ctrl+Tab triggers the key combination you previously set. For that you'll need AutoHotkey. If you don't already have AutoHotkey, first download and install it from its website. Then, put the following text in an AutoHotkey script in your startup folder, at %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\tabswitch.ahk (e.g. in a new text file located at C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup and named tabswitch.ahk, with no .txt extension):
; Fix for Chrome's lack of MRU tab switching.
; Use this with a decent MRU tab switching extension, like
; https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ctrl%20tab-mru/ialfjajikhdldpgcfglgndennidgkhik
; Configure it to use Ctrl-Q, or change the key below.
#IfWinActive, ahk_exe chrome.exe ; If currently using Chrome
^Tab::^q
^+Tab::^+q
#IfWinActive
This remaps Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab to Ctrl+Q and Ctrl+Shift+Q, respectively, when Chrome is the currently selected Window. This will allow you to use Ctrl+Tab to switch between tabs with MRU ordering in Chrome. Don't forget to double-click the script to run it. It should start back up automatically when you reboot your computer.
There are two features enabled by Firefox's ctrltab shortcut that Chrome doesn't yet offer:
Switch to the previously used tab
Press ctrltab and then release both
Select an open tab from a menu using the keyboard
Press ctrltab but then release just tab
Press and release tab repeatedly to select older tabs in the menu
Release ctrl to switch to the selected tab
The only Chrome extension I know of that offers a facsimile of this — without requiring the unnecessarily broad Read and change all your data on the websites you visit permission and that works with tabs into which extensions can't inject code, like Chrome Webstore pages — is QuicKey (which I wrote).
QuicKey works around Chrome's limitations by using one shortcut to open the popup menu (by default, altQ on Windows), then listening for another keypress (W, right next door) to move the selection in the menu, and then waiting for the alt keyup event to switch to the selected tab.
It has to use W instead of Q (which would be the equivalent to tab in this shortcut) because pressing that with alt down would close the popup. (The popup page doesn't see that key event at all so it can't block it.) But that does mean QuicKey can use a quick double-press of altQ (or double-click of the icon) as a shortcut to toggle to the previously used tab. It does that by timing how long the popup was open, and switching tabs if the time was less than 450ms.
If you want to use ctrltab as a shortcut for switching between recent tabs in QuicKey, there's a simple, cross-platform way to do it via Chrome devtools.
I am using tab stack as a workaround until Chrome has native MRU support (crossfingers) ;)
Tab Stack (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-stack/gfpdghcockbpiokcaaagmnneioeopnnb) moves the current tab to the front after a brief delay. It's very simple solution that gives you kind of MRU.
Solutions above didn't work for me. Maybe b/c of an international keyboard layout.
As an alternative I would offer using FF, in it you have to set browser.ctrlTab.previews setting to true and you have an MRU behavior.
All ctrl-tab MRU options I have seen on Chrome feel like hacks / do not work reliably.
I recommend switching to latest Opera . You basically get Chrome(ium) with a few key addings (MRU tabs, but also mouse gestures).
The setting is at opera://flags/#activation-order-tab-cycling (needs restarting the browser).
Finally there is a working one:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clut-cycle-last-used-tabs/cobieddmkhhnbeldhncnfcgcaccmehgn?hl=en
Here's a very light and intuitive solution for tabs organizing in the most recently used order, which is supported in all major browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, other Chrome-based browsers): Tab Slider. Its features are:
Works just like Alt+Tab on Windows or Cmd+Tab on Mac, but with browser tabs
Visually sorts tabs so you always see them in the MRU order (Ctrl+Tab switches to the next MRU tab)
Works with pinned tabs as well
Is customizable (however, I would advise sticking with defaults)
Try it! Hope you'll love it.
For mac users you can use this extension:
chrome extension
It has a shortcut opt+y to cycle through previous tabs. And if you want to use ctrl+tab as shortcut, you can use karabiner element tool to map the opt y shortcut to ctrl tab.
the mapping i use for karabiner is like so:
{
"from": {
"key_code": "tab",
"modifiers": {
"mandatory": [
"left_control"
]
}
},
"to": [
{
"key_code": "y",
"modifiers": [
"left_option"
]
}
],
"type": "basic"
}
Yes there is a working solution available now. I found Recent Tabs extension perfect for MRU tabs solution in chrome. You can use ctrl+Q or ctrl+~ or assign your own.
Better to use http://bahoom.com/hyperswitch as jason3w suggests
My solution:
On OSX I usually want MRU switching when I want to repeatedly switch between two chrome tabs and a code editor. (For example, trello.com and localhost:3000)
In this case, I start up chrome canary which is properly treated as a separate application by OSX, and allows for a simple alt-tabbing (like windows used to), SWEET!!
https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/canary.html
Try it out, peeps. I tried the Opera solution, but just couldn't live without some of the other features of chrome. I hope Opera continues to develop.
Is there a real working solution to add MRU tab selection via CTRL+TAB
to Google Chrome?
Yes. You need to modify Your preferences file as like here:
http://forum.ru-board.com/topic.cgi?forum=5&topic=34987&start=4680#16
(change Your sequence to Ctrl+Tab and Shift+Ctrl+Tab)
Chrome does not block it. You simply cannot assigh this combination becouse of hook.. But if You edit Preferences file, it works.
It is situated near
"C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User
Data\Default\Preferences"
Just found this https://github.com/acemtp/chrome_mru
Its goal is to enable you to use CTRL+TAB in Google Chrome with the
Most Recently Used (MRU) Tab behavior (and not the default
next/previous tab).
I didn't try it so far. Hope it helps
edit reason: Stopped working.
On Mac OS, the Recent Tabs extension is somehow able to reassign Ctrl+Tab to switch between two most recently used tabs out-of-the-box!
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/recent-tabs/ocllfmhjhfmogablefmibmjcodggknml
The tricky solution to achieve this on Windows is to combine Quick Tabs chrome extensions and AutoHotkey script. I've described it in details here, so here is in a nutshell:
1) Quick Tabs is an open-source, customizable extension, that allows you redefine some CSS styles and allows to setup hotkey for switching MRU tabs. Also it supports keyboard navigation (move to next/previous tab). However chrome doesn't let you bind Ctrl+Tab as a keyboard shortcut, so you need to register another one (for example Ctrl+Shift+S) and then use AutoHotkey script to "remap" Ctrl+Tab for chrome into Ctrl+Shift+S.
2) I won't put here the AutoHotkey script, you can find it here. It covers Ctrl+Tab remapping and handle all the keyboard navigation.
As a result you will see something like that when press Ctrl+Tab in active chrome window:
Arrows navigation, Esc, both Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab are working the way you expected.
Best workaround I have found on mac/linux is to install a extension that sorts the tabs in MRU order*, so that ctrl+tab works the way you'd expect it to:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-slider/nobaaibkcalggmjnjhnlmmcldllpogjp
* last used tab is moved to all the way to the left
I have a few extensions (with their icons up on the right). I'd like to assign a shortcut for activating each one of them, i.e. a shortcut that simulates clicking the mouse on them.
One extension e.g. is a dictionary and it would be more than useful to be able to open it without tinkering with the mouse.
There's a way to do this in chrome://extensions if you go to the bottom of the page and find "Configure commands" link.
I also am wondering about how to do this, and here is the possible solution suggested by Misha Kupriyanov:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/108214193841489989707/posts/2YBaEqRsCPw
You can take the Quick Disable Chrome extension by +Paul Kinlan (you can find the source on github)
It uses the chrome.management API http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/management.html
and now you can write your own pageAction extension ;) = include on each page your JavaScript for catching keyboard events and triggering enable/disable events via chrome.management API
Also check out the Vimium (also open source) by Ilya Sukhar (i am not sure its his account)
Try Autohot, it's a free tool that makes it easy to automate that kind of things, easiest would be:
wait for your "keyboard shortcut" to be fired
check that google chrome is the active window
click on the fixed mouse coordinate to activate the extension