Brave Browser Quick Dev Reference

A visual cheat-sheet for the 64 keyboard shortcuts found in the Brave browser.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Tabs and Windows

Ctrl N — Open a new window

Ctrl Shift N — Open a new window in Private mode

Ctrl T — Open a new tab, and jump to it

Ctrl Shift T — Reopen the last closed tab, and jump to it

Ctrl Tab — Jump to the next open tab

Ctrl Shift Tab — Jump to the previous open tab

Ctrl 1-8 — Jump to a specific tab

Ctrl 9 — Jump to the last tab

Alt Home — Open your home page in the current tab

Ctrl Left — Open the previous page from your browsing history in the current tab

Alt Right — Open the next page from your browsing history in the current tab

Ctrl W — Close the current tab

Ctrl Shift W — Close the current window

Alt Space N — Minimize the current window

Alt Space X — Maximize the current window

Alt F4 — Close the current window

Ctrl Shift Q — Quit Brave

Browser

Alt F — Open the main menu

Ctrl Shift B — Show or hide the bookmarks bar

Ctrl H — Open the history page in a new tab

Ctrl J — Open the downloads page in a new tab

Shift Esc — Open the Brave task manager

Shift Alt T — Set focus on the first item in the toolbar

F10 — Set focus on the last item in the toolbar

F6 — Switch focus to unfocused dialog, if showing

Ctrl F — Open the find bar to search the current page

Ctrl G — Jump to the next match in your find bar search

Ctrl Shift G — Jump to the previous match in your find bar search

Ctrl Shift J — Open developer tools

Ctrl Shift Delete — Open the clear browser data options

F1 — Open the Brave help center in a new tab

Ctrl Shift M — Open profile menu

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Address Bar

Enter — Search with your default search engine (after typing)

Tab — Search using a different search engine (after typing)

Ctrl Enter — Add www. and .com to a site name, and open it in the current tab (after typing)

Alt Enter — Open a new tab and perform a search (after typing)

Ctrl L — Jump to the address bar

Ctrl K — Search from anywhere on the page

Shift Delete — Remove predictions from your address bar (after highlighting them)

Webpage

Ctrl P — Open options to print the current page

Ctrl S — Open options to save the current page

Ctrl R — Reload the current page

Ctrl Shift R — Reload the current page, ignoring cached content

Esc — Stop the page loading

Tab — Browse clickable items moving forward

Shift Tab — Browse clickable items moving backwards

Ctrl O — Open a file from your computer in Brave

Ctrl U — Display non-editable HTML source code for the current page

Ctrl D — Save your current webpage as a bookmark

Ctrl Shift D — Save all open tabs as bookmarks in a new folder

F11 — Turn full-screen mode on or off

Ctrl + — Make everything on the page bigger

Ctrl - — Make everything on the page smaller

Ctrl 0 — Return everything on the page to default size

Space — Scroll down a webpage, a screen at a time

Shift Space — Scroll up a webpage, a screen at a time

Home — Go to the top of the page

End — Go to the bottom of the page

Shift (scroll) — Scroll horizontally on the page

Alt Left — Move your cursor to the front of the previous word in a text field

Ctrl Right — Move your cursor to the back of the next word in a text field

Ctrl Back — Delete the previous word in a text field

Alt Home — Open the home page in the current tab