Keyboard shortcuts were designed for a world where both hands lived on the desk. One on the keyboard, one on the mouse. But that's not how most people actually browse. You're leaning back with a coffee. You're mousing through tabs on a laptop. You're one-handing it on a trackball. Every time Chrome forces you to reach for Ctrl+something, you break your flow.
Wilee's radial menu puts the ten most common keyboard shortcuts directly under your mouse cursor. Hold the right mouse button, flick toward the action, release. No modifier keys, no two-hand coordination, no memorization. Here are the ten shortcuts you can retire today.
1. Copy — Ctrl+C
Ctrl+C is the most-used keyboard shortcut in existence, and it still demands two hands. You select text with the mouse, then your left hand has to find Ctrl and C while your right hand keeps the mouse still. On a laptop, that often means an awkward cross-hand reach.
With Wilee: Select your text, hold the right mouse button, and flick toward Copy. That's it. Your clipboard is loaded and your hand never left the mouse. Wilee detects the text selection automatically and surfaces Copy as a radial menu option.
2. Paste — Ctrl+V
Paste has the same problem as Copy: it requires the keyboard at the exact moment you're focused on a mouse target. You've clicked into a form field or text box, and now you need to coordinate both hands to press Ctrl+V. If you have something in your other hand, you're stuck.
With Wilee: Click the destination field, hold the right mouse button, and flick toward Paste. Wilee inserts your clipboard contents at the cursor position. Pair it with the Copy flick, and you get a complete copy-paste cycle without touching the keyboard once.
3. New Tab — Ctrl+T
Opening a new tab is something you do dozens of times a day. Ctrl+T is simple to remember, but it's still a two-hand action. And if you're already reaching for the "+" button at the end of the tab strip, that target gets smaller the more tabs you have open.
With Wilee: Hold the right mouse button on any empty space on the page and flick toward New Tab. A blank tab opens instantly. No hunting for the tiny "+" icon, no keyboard required. It's especially useful when you're deep in a research session and want to branch off quickly.
4. Close Tab — Ctrl+W
Ctrl+W is convenient, but it's also dangerous. It's one key away from Ctrl+Q (quit the browser) and Ctrl+E (focus the address bar). One misfire and you've closed your entire window instead of a single tab. The tiny "x" button on the tab strip is precise but small.
With Wilee: Hold the right mouse button on empty page space and flick toward Close Tab. The current tab closes. There's no adjacent action that quits your browser, and the flick gesture is forgiving enough that you won't trigger it by accident. If you do close the wrong tab, Ctrl+Shift+T still works to reopen it.
5. Find on Page — Ctrl+F
Find on page is one of Chrome's best features, but the workflow has an unnecessary gap. You press Ctrl+F, the find bar appears, then you have to type the word you're looking for. If you already see the word on screen, you're typing something you could have just pointed at.
With Wilee: Select the word or phrase you want to find, hold the right mouse button, and flick toward Search. Wilee opens Chrome's find bar with your selected text pre-filled. Every match on the page highlights immediately. You go from "I see this word" to "show me every instance" in one gesture.
6. Back — Alt+Left Arrow
Alt+Left Arrow is a shortcut most people don't even know exists. They click the back button in the toolbar instead, which means aiming for a small target in the top-left corner of the window. Either way, you're interrupting your reading flow to navigate.
With Wilee: Hold the right mouse button on empty page space and flick left. That's it — the page navigates back. The directional gesture is intuitive: left means backward in your history. After a day of use, it becomes muscle memory. You'll flick left without consciously deciding to.
7. Forward — Alt+Right Arrow
Alt+Right Arrow is even less known than its backward counterpart. Most people who accidentally go back too far just re-navigate to the page manually, not realizing there's a forward button at all. The forward arrow in the toolbar only appears after you've gone back, making it easy to miss.
With Wilee: Hold the right mouse button on empty page space and flick right. Forward. It mirrors the Back gesture perfectly — left for back, right for forward. The symmetry makes both actions trivial to learn. If you went back one page too many, a quick flick right corrects it.
8. Open Link in New Tab — Ctrl+Click
Ctrl+Click is the power user's way of opening a link without leaving the current page. But it requires pressing Ctrl with your left hand at the precise moment your right hand clicks the link. If your timing is off, you navigate away from the page instead of opening a new tab. Middle-click does the same thing, but many mice and most trackpads don't have a middle button.
With Wilee: Hover over any link, hold the right mouse button, and flick toward Open in New Tab. The link opens in a background tab while you stay on the current page. No timing coordination, no modifier keys, and it works regardless of whether your mouse has a middle button.
9. Scroll to Top — Home Key
The Home key jumps to the top of the page, but it's in different places on every keyboard. Full-size keyboards put it above the arrow keys. Laptops bury it behind an Fn key combo. Some compact keyboards don't have it at all. It's the most inconsistent shortcut across hardware.
With Wilee: Hold the right mouse button on empty page space and flick up. The page scrolls to the top. No matter what keyboard you have — or whether you have a keyboard within reach at all — the gesture is always the same. Particularly useful on long articles and infinite-scroll pages where you've scrolled deep and want to return to the top.
10. Send to LLM — No Shortcut Exists
This is the one Chrome can't do at all. There is no keyboard shortcut for "send this text to ChatGPT" or "ask Claude about this paragraph." The current workflow is: select text, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+T, type the URL, click the input box, Ctrl+V, press Enter. Seven steps across two hands, a keyboard, and manual URL entry.
With Wilee: Select the text, hold the right mouse button, and flick toward your preferred LLM — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Perplexity. Wilee opens a new tab with your selected text already loaded into the AI's input. One gesture replaces an entire workflow that didn't have a shortcut in the first place. This turns AI from a destination you visit into a tool you use inline, whenever a sentence confuses you or a code snippet needs explanation.
The Pattern
All ten actions follow the same interaction: hold the right mouse button, flick in a direction, release. The menu adapts to context — if you've selected text, you see Copy, Search, and LLM options. If you're on empty space, you see tab and navigation actions. If you're hovering a link, you see Open in New Tab. You don't configure this. Wilee reads the page state and shows what's relevant.
The result is that your keyboard becomes optional for routine browsing. You still need it for typing URLs and filling out forms. But the twenty or thirty times per hour you'd reach for a modifier key combo? Those become flicks. Faster, one-handed, and identical on every machine.
Install Wilee from the Chrome Web Store and give it a week. By day three, you'll stop reaching for Ctrl. By day seven, you'll wonder why browsers ever required a keyboard for navigation in the first place.