Sunday, March 24, 2013

Quick Tip for Chrome - Fast Access to Downloads tab

If you're like me and you click more than use hot keys, here's a quick tip to use your Home button as a fast access to your Chrome browser's "Downloads" tab. Most folks don't have it enabled and are not using it anyway, so this is a good way to put it to use for myself, so I figured I would share it with others.


  1. Open Chrome.
  2. Click Settings (three lines in upper right corner).
  3. Click the word "Settings".
  4. Check "Show Home Button."
  5. Click "Change" underneath that.
  6. Select "Open this page" and enter:  chrome://downloads/
  7. Click "OK" and close the settings window.
Now when you want quick access to your downloads page, click the Home button and it will show all your downloads.

The hot key to open "Downloads" is Ctrl + J for those who use the keyboard more.

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