Hotkey Chain

Shortcuts for your browser: chain 75+ actions and run them by hotkey, address bar, right-click, schedule, or URL match.

The same few steps, every day: scroll to top, zoom in, go fullscreen. Close the duplicate tabs, group the rest by site, get the window back under control. Save the page to your reading list and remind yourself you did. Hotkey Chain chains those steps together and runs them from one keystroke. Like Shortcuts, but inside your browser. How it works A chain is a list of actions that run in order, with an optional wait between steps. You reorder them by dragging in the options page, and each chain card draws its steps as a timeline — the wait is shown on the connector between two steps, so you can see how long the chain takes at a glance. Five ways to trigger a chain Hotkey — Ctrl+Shift+H runs the default chain, Ctrl+Shift+1/2/3 run chains 1–3; bind the rest yourself in the browser's shortcut settings Address bar — type hc + space + a chain name and pick it as you type Right-click — run a chain from a page, a text selection, a link, an image, or media Schedule — every N minutes, for housekeeping like tidying tabs URL match — runs itself when a matching page loads; open your inbox and focus mode is already on 77 actions in nine groups Page (scroll, reload, fullscreen, dark mode, translate, print) · Tabs (close duplicates, sort by URL, group by domain, mute, discard to free memory, reopen closed) · Windows · Media (playback control, read the selection aloud) · Content (copy the URL, title, a Markdown link or your own format; search the selection; bookmark; add to reading list) · Zoom · Flow control · Advanced (screenshot, save as MHTML, clear cache, keep awake) · Extension control. It asks before anything you can't undo This is where it differs from a one-click tool: put an "Ask to confirm" step in front of something irreversible like "Close other tabs", and the chain stops and waits for a yes. Choose cancel and the whole chain stops. Mis-firing a destructive chain stops being expensive. Add conditions (continue only if the URL matches, or only if text is selected), chains that call other chains, and the variables {url} {title} {selection} {clipboard} {date} {time}, and a chain is really a small script. Ready to use Nine one-click templates: Focus, Tab cleanup, Video, Snapshot, Read aloud, Translate, Copy page info, Close other tabs with a confirmation, and Wrap-up. Export the whole configuration as JSON to back it up or move machines, or export a single chain to share. 18 interface languages, following the browser by default and overridable in the options page. Arabic switches the layout right-to-left automatically. About privacy No account, no sync, no server. Your chains and settings live in your browser's local storage; export and import are files you choose. The extension asks for a fair number of permissions, because an action can only be offered if the permission behind it is granted — every one of them is mapped to the feature it serves in the open-source repository. Free, MIT-licensed, works on Chrome and Edge.