Web browsers are one of the programs that generate the most junk and unnecessary files . As we use them, they save all kinds of files (session and tracking cookies, temporary files, cache, etc.) that, although their objective is to improve our browsing experience, in the end they only serve to reduce our privacy, occupy space. and often lead to browser issues. Chrome, like any other browser, allows us to see and delete all this data . What we surely do not know is that we can do it with just pressing three keys.
As in many programs, we can carry out a large number of tasks with Chrome’s keyboard shortcuts. These shortcuts allow us to open new tabs, new windows, go to incognito mode and scroll through the webs, and through the browser options, without using the mouse. Among the many keyboard shortcuts offered by this browser, there is one that is especially striking.
Clear cache and temps of Chrome with the keyboard
The standard way to erase Chrome browsing data is to do it from the options menu, specifically from the Privacy and security> Clear browsing data section. Here we can review all the data that the browser saves from our session and choose the ones we want to delete or leave. But if we often go to this section we are surely wasting time.
Google introduced a simple keyboard shortcut long ago that will allow us to directly open the panel to erase Chrome’s browsing data. To do this, all we have to press is Control + Shift + Del . In doing so, we will go directly to the next section of the Chrome configuration, from where we can erase our data.
We can review all the data that we are going to delete, or directly delete the options that Google offers us by default. We can also choose the time range in case, for example, we want to delete only the data that has been generated in the last hour.
By clicking on the blue “clear data” button , all this will be cleared from the browser. And we can continue using the browser as a newly installed Chrome.
Other essential shortcuts
Chrome shortcuts help us to make working with the browser more comfortable and simple. And while it has a large number of different key combinations , there are always a few that are the most useful and the most used. If you want to master the possibilities of the Google browser, these are the shortcuts that we must know:
- Control + N -> New window
- Control + T -> New tab
- F6 -> Go to the address bar
- Control + Shift + N -> New window in incognito
- F11 -> Full screen
- F12 -> Developer Console
- Control + Shift + O -> Open bookmarks
- Control + Shift + B -> Hide Bookmarks Bar
- F3 -> Find (same as Control + F)
- Control + Mouse wheel -> Zoom in or out on webs
- Alt + F4 -> Close browser
As we can see, we can almost navigate web pages without the need for the mouse. It is already a matter of each one, how they feel most comfortable.