With a few tweaks, you can set up hotkeys for your Chrome extensions and even access them if Chrome isnt your current active window.

When all the actions you want to perform are mapped to key combinations, it becomes a lot faster to open windows, execute tasks, and search for what you need.

Google Chromes extensions have always been a great source to boost your productivity, featuring easy shortcuts and features to perform basic tasks.

Even better, if the extension supports it, you can set up custom hotkeys related to performing basic features within that extension.

Instead, were going to be using Google Chromes special extension hotkey list.

This allows us to browse every single action we can assign hotkeys to via extensions, as well as creating said hotkeys.

In the drop-down that appears, select More tools and then Extensions.

This is the general hub for when you want to edit, turn off, or remove any extensions you have installed.

You can change individual options for extensions by clicking the Options text underneath it, which may include hotkey functionality.

However, if you want an easier way to set up hotkeys, scroll all the way to the bottom of this page.

Click this.

Find the extension youd like to set up a hotkey for, then find the feature youd like to assign it to.

For example, if we wanted to make a hotkey for composing an email in the extension Checker Plus, we can do so by going to Checker Plus hotkey list and finding the option for Compose.

Check within the apps settings to see if theres an option for hotkeys there.

If not, try to get in contact with the app developer and let them know youd love keyboard shortcuts for your extension as well as what youd like a hotkey for.

Note that, at the time of writing, Chrome only supports two-key combinations.

If we want to set the hotkey Ctrl N to compose a new mail, click in the box, hold Ctrl and press N.

In this case, the custom hotkey you set will override the default one.

Ctrl N will no longer open a new window but will instead open Checker Plus compose window.

If you set the hotkey to Global, this means you no longer have to be within the window in order to trigger the hotkey.

You can be in a different application altogether and still be able to activate it.

Pressing the hotkey while Chrome is fully closed wont trigger the extension.

However, as long as Chrome is running (even if its minimized onto the taskbar), the hotkey should work.

Even better, it appears to override overlapping hotkeys with other software, so you dont have to worry about your custom hotkeys causing havoc in other applications.

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