Chrome - keyboard shortcut to close window

Skeeter · 12 Dec 2011 at 15:19

There is a keyboard shortcut of some kind in Chrome that closes the open window with no warning or prompts or saving, it just goes.

I know this because I have accidentally managed to press it a couple of times. But I have no idea what it is!

Anyone know?

UKDTweak · 12 Dec 2011 at 15:20

ALt-F4 ?

Reaper 392 · 12 Dec 2011 at 15:32

alt + F4 will close the entire program and control + W will close the current window. there might be other shortcuts floating around though

Skeeter · 12 Dec 2011 at 15:48

Ctrl-W only closes the current tab, not the whole window, and its not Alt-F4 as I have managed to do it accidentally while typing, and the F4 key is out of reach.

vertica · 12 Dec 2011 at 21:22

Ctrl+Shift+w closes all tabs in the current window without warning, but it is quite an odd thing to accidentally press!

Incidentally Ctrl+Shift+t will open them all again (from within a chrome window)

shine · 12 Dec 2011 at 21:25

Skeeter said:
Ctrl-W only closes the current tab, not the whole window, and its not Alt-F4 as I have managed to do it accidentally while typing, and the F4 key is out of reach.

Everyone is right, you are wrong:

https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=157179&topic=25799&rd=1

Clearly aliens are pressing F4 on your behalf so be careful when you next hit the Alt key!

Skeeter · 12 Dec 2011 at 21:40

Is there a Windows shortcut that closes the current open application other than Alt-F4?

Tomsk · 12 Dec 2011 at 22:03

ALT-Space, followed by 'C'

Skeeter · 13 Dec 2011 at 12:56

Tomsk said:
ALT-Space, followed by 'C'

By Jove, I think he's got it!

I distinctively remember being at 'that end' of the keyboard when this happens

Cheers!