Auto clicker keyboard shortcuts in Chrome
Reaching for the popup every time gets old. LoopClicker has two keyboard shortcuts — start/stop and pick a target — and Esc on the page always stops a run. Chrome lets you change the shortcuts to whatever suits you.
Step by step
- Type chrome://extensions/shortcuts into the address bar and press Enter.
- Find LoopClicker. It has two shortcuts: one starts and stops a run, the other picks a target.
- Click the pencil next to a shortcut and press the keys you want. Chrome needs Ctrl or Alt in the combination (Command or Option on a Mac).
- Leave the scope on In Chrome, so the keys act on the tab you are looking at.
- Go back to the page: press the pick shortcut and click the target, then the start shortcut. Esc on the page stops a run.
Want to try it first? The test page has buttons, a click area, a form and more to practise on — nothing on it is sent anywhere.
The keys
- Start or stop runs the quick clicker with the settings last used on this site, or stops whatever is running in the tab.
- Pick a target opens the picker on the page, without the popup.
- Esc stops a run on the page you are on. It needs no setting.
- The suggested keys are Alt+Shift+S to start or stop and Alt+Shift+P to pick (Option instead of Alt on a Mac). If another extension already uses them, Chrome leaves them unset: set your own.
If a shortcut does nothing
- Another extension or the site may use the same keys. Pick a different combination at
chrome://extensions/shortcuts. - Shortcuts do not work on Chrome's own pages or the Chrome Web Store, where extensions cannot run.
What it cannot do
- Chrome allows only combinations with Ctrl or Alt (Command or Option on a Mac); single keys such as F6 alone cannot be used.
- A shortcut set to Global still acts on Chrome's active tab; it cannot click in other apps.
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