How to disable Chrome's obnoxious Ctrl-Shift-Q shortcut

All right, Android fans: Today's tip is for you. Well, kind of. It's actually related to Chrome for Windows. But if you carry an Android phone and also use a Windows computer -- whether at work or at home -- there's a decent chance you use Chrome on the desktop, too.

I do -- and I've lost count of the number of the times I've accidentally closed all my active Chrome tabs because I hit Ctrl-Shift-Q by mistake. Ctrl-Shift-Q, if you aren't familiar, is a native Chrome shortcut that closes every tab and window you have open without warning. It's infuriatingly close to Ctrl-Shift-Tab, a shortcut that shifts your focus back to the previous tab in your current window. That's what I'm typically trying to do when I hit "Q" instead of "Tab" by mistake.

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