Google removed the keyboard shortcut in search, there are available extensions in the extension store that give you this functionality back, but they request extraneous permission or use unnecessary third party javascript libraries. This version of mine use no third party libraries nor request unnecessary permission to work. Just plain vanilla javascript.
/: Focus search boxj: Select next result or next/previous pagek: Select previous result or next/previous page
- Download the repository as zip, unzipped it.
- In the Chrome extensions window, turn on developer mode, select "Load unpacked extension" and select the unzipped directory.