Forget menus with Chrome for Android and iOS – Total Computer

Instead, you just have to just swipe, swipe, hold or push to open a new tab, a tab you no longer need to conclude an interesting URL to copy to the clipboard, get all your tabs appear and more. Read also:. Switching from iOS to Android

Read on for 6 handy Google Chrome for Android and iOS gestures, beginning with …

1. Press and slide to get all your tabs appear (Android only)

To see all your open Chrome tabs at once You must hold down the address and pull it downwards

For a list of all your open tabs you on the square Tabs . – button in the upper right corner of the browser window. But there is a simpler way: keep the address hold (the bar with the URL of the webpage) and pull it down. All your open tabs will be displayed. Press to select a tab

Bonus tip:. If your phone All Tabs playback on its side keeps you open tabs horizontally on the screen will be displayed instead vertically.

2. Swipe to close a tab (Android and iOS)

An open tab in Chrome, you can simply close by swiping.

So now all your open tabs visible. For there to close a number you would on the small X can press the right corner of the tab, there is (again) a better way. You can just wipe away any unwanted tabs – from left to right or vice versa

3.. Swipe to scroll through your open tabs (Android and iOS)

You can quickly scroll through your open tabs.

It is useful to be able to see all your open tabs at once, but what if you want to switch from one to another without using this view? No problem.

On an Android phone you just have to wipe the address bar to one side. Chrome then goes to the next tab. Continue to wipe one by one, go through your tabs.

On an iPhone you should go to the web page itself and swipe from the left or right of the screen. It is a gesture that can be confusing for Safari users, since this same gesture in Safari for iOS is a page forward or backward within a particular tab.

4. Keep the Address button to copy a URL (Android only)

Keep a URL into the Chrome address bar pressed for a Copy URL handy shortcut

There are several different ways you can copy a URL on an Android device

Method 1.. You can press the Menu button at the top right of the page, Share and the Copy to clipboard button.

That works fine, but method 2 easier: just hold the address bar. There appears a pop-up with the full URL of the web page, along with a Copy URL option. Press it and you’ve saved yourself an extra step.

5. Slide your thumb down to open the Chrome menu (Android only)

wipe in a circular motion from the top down screen, swipe down to the menu option you want and release.

The menu with the three dots at the top right of the browser contains a lot of important Chrome- functions – everything from opening a tab and opening your bookmarks to parts of a page and the search for keywords

It can be a bit tricky to get to the tiny button with your fingertip. especially being so close beside the All tabs button is

There is a more elegant way to open the Chrome menu. swipe down from the top right of the screen your thumb or another finger (a gesture that is more convenient to do for people who love their Android phone in their right)

If you do the Chrome menu opens -. but gives you finger not off the screen. Swipe to the menu option you want to select and release. All in one smooth motion.

6. Pull down a page to load it again (and more)

Pull down a Web page in Chrome for the iPhone to the page reload

For a faster way to refresh a Web page, you can try the following:. pull the page in question down with your fingertip and release it when it round Reload symbol appears

But wait, there’s more -. that is, if you use Chrome for iOS

If you have a page in Chrome. iPhone pulls down, you see a number of additional icons next to the Reload symbol appears: + on the left and a X on the right .

While pulling the lower page will open a new Chrome tab if your fingertip which moves left until a + will appear.

If you move closes the active tab to the right and X is highlighted.