Chrome’s new Commander displays Chrome commands as you type

After Tab Search and Chrome Actions, Google is working to bring a search interface to Chrome named Commander that appears always on top and shows respective Chrome commands in the drop down including entries from bookmarks and history while you type. You find this similar to Vivaldi Quick commands. The feature is available in Chrome 91 Canary and here is how you can enable it.

What is Commander

Think of this as one UI or universal Search in Chrome to display all browser features relevant to what you typed in the search bar.

Google calls commander as a “text interface to common chromium functionality.”

How to open and use Commander in Chrome

Launch Chrome
Hold Ctrl and press Space.
Start typing, Chrome displays all the commands that match the letters you’ve typed. Select one of them using the mouse to run.
For instance, if you type “a”, commander lists “Save page as”, “Bookmarks all tabs”, “Create a new tab”, “Open recently closed tabs”, etc along with a shortcut for each on right.
Not only that, you can open a new Google Doc, Google Spreadsheet, Google Meet, or Google forms in a new tab right from the interface when you type the letter N”.

Once the Ctrl+Space shortcut is pressed, the search bar sticks to the top of Chrome. It can be dismissed or closed by pressing Ctrl+space hotkey again.

As of now, there is no other way to close the commander except using the Hotkey.