There are a handful of keyboard shortcuts I always use with Firefox. Maybe I’m just becoming lazier as I get older, before Firefox it doesn’t seem like I ever used keyboard combinations to make my way around a program that often.
I could toss in something there about how Firefox has made me a better person, but that might be going a little overboard. Here are a few keyboard shortcuts that I use on a daily basis.
Ctrl + Shift + T – Use this to pull up a tab that you might have closed by mistake. I always hate closing the wrong tab when I am cleaning up Firefox after doing some heavy duty browsing. This shortcut is a life saver for me in that regard.
Ctrl + T – Use this keyboard combo to open up a new tab. I used to have an icon on the toolbar to do this. That just takes way too much time though. It is much easier for me to hit Ctrl and T to get the new tab I need.
Space Bar – Get to scrolling down the Web page a little faster by hitting the space bar key. No big secret to this one – but it is helpful.
Ctrl + B – Pull your bookmarks up in the sidebar with this wonderful keyboard combo. Helpful for finding that one bookmark that is buried three or four folders deep.
Have any other keyboard combos you think everybody should use?
Shift + Spacebar takes you in the opposite direction (back up the page.) Very handy!!
Crtl+Tab changes tabs
Crtl+Shift+Tab changes tabs in the other direction
Crtl+w closes the current tab
Alt+D (or F6) to access the location (address) bar.
Ctrl and the number from left to right of the tab takes you straight to that tab.
Ctrl-K: takes you to the keyword search bar
Ctrl-L: takes you to the URL bar (and selects the current URL, so you just have to type the first letters of the URL you want to visit).
Ctrl-F: starts search-in-page
Ctr-W: closes current tab.
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