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QuickShift is a rad tool to have. Unlike so many other “multiple monitor” software utilities, it doesn’t include a bunch of invasive shtuff like extra taskbars and pointy-clicky buttons at the top of all your windows. If you’re a mouse person, sure, those things are probably great, but I’m a keyboard man myself. That stupid mouse has caused me nothing but wrist pain for too many years; these days I want to use it as sparingly as possible. Since creating QuickShift I’ve used my mouse considerably less, but I’ve still frequently needed it to move individual Google Chrome tabs back and forth between monitors. Or sometimes I want to yank out several tabs and put them into their own window by themselves. All that was beyond QuickShift’s purview. So this past weekend I set out to create a Google Chrome extension to pick up where QuickShift leaves off. It only took two days to learn a little JavaScript, figure out the Chrome API, and upload it to the Google Chrome gallery. As far as I’m aware, QuickShift For Chrome is the first hotkey extension designed with multiple monitors in mind* and I’m pretty excited about it. Now I can move individual Chrome tabs back and forth without touching my mouse. Awesome. Best of all, it complements QuickShift perfectly: if I don’t have a second Chrome window open, I can use a QSFC hotkey to create a new window and a QS hotkey to move it to the specific monitor where I want it. Wham-bam.

Do you use Google Chrome? Do you user more than one monitor? You should try out QuickShift For Chrome. It’s free and can be installed from the Google extension gallery.

* If I’m wrong, feel free to correct me.