Welcome to Mission Ctrl. The task at hand? Figure out what happens when you push “that button” along with the Ctrl key. The result? An awesome cheat sheet of keyboard shortcuts for you to use and enjoy.
Ctrl + 1 through 9 = Quick switch between 9 open tabs
Ctrl + Page Up = Move left through your open tabs
Ctrl + Page Down = Move right through your open tabs
Ctrl + P = Print Screen
Ctrl + O = Open File
Ctrl + I = Open Bookmarks in Sidebar
Ctrl + U = View Source
Ctrl + T = Open an Empty New Tab
Ctrl + R = Reload web page
Ctrl + E = Move Cursor to Search Bar
Ctrl + W = Close tab (if no tabs open, then closes browser)
Ctrl + Tab = Move right through your open tabs
Ctrl + S = Open “Save As…”
Ctrl + D = Bookmark This Page
Ctrl + F = Open the Find bar for searching the web page
Ctrl + H = Open History in Sidebar
Ctrl + J = Open the Download Manager
Ctrl + K = Move Cursor to Search Bar
Ctrl + L = Move Cursor to Address Bar
Ctrl + B = Open Bookmarks in Sidebar
Ctrl + N = Open a New Firefox Window
The idea of cheat sheets always interested me, so I figured why not do a few of my own? If there is another you would like to see – speak up in the comments.
Bonus! Need Ctrl + Shift keyboard combos?
CTRL + W doesn’t close the browser, only closes tab. It’s the browser that automatically closes if no tabs are open.
Maybe you should include CTRL+SHIFT+H to open Places (new window), CTRL+SHITF+R to reload without cache (very useful) and more CTRL+SHIFT’s.
Yep Ctrl + W will close the browser if you don’t have multiple tabs open. Ctrl+Shift might come with the next collection. :D
There’s not by chance a shhortcut to cycle through the search engines on the search bar is there?
Kind of Andres, you have to hold down Ctrl + E, and while doing so – hit the down key on the keyboard. Hope that helps!
Perfect! Thanks for the tip.
Ctrl + Shift + T to reopen closed tabs
Andres said,
June 26, 2008 @ 7:16 am
There’s not by chance a shhortcut to cycle through the search engines on the search bar is there?
Yes there is: Ctrl + Down Arrow (or Up Arrow).
@ Mitch
In my browser it closes the last tab but doesn’t close the window. The tab bar (which is always displayed, even if with only one tab) displays no tab and the browser is blank… That’s why I said that, I think it’s the browser closing automatically when no tab’s left, no the CTRL+W closing the window when only one tab left. If you know what I mean. But then again, I may be wrong. My browser is quite tweaked and personalized.
It would be nice if you also included Mac shortcuts and not just Windows… :)
(I know most of these are easily translatable, but not all [new] Mac users realise this, and there are some minor differences here and there.)
@Mitch you can also use Ctrl+F5 to reload w/out cache in fewer presses.
Another very useful Ctrl+Shift function is Ctrl+Shift+T = Open last closed tab. I’m forever clicking twice on the X and accidentally closing one tab too many.
@a – For us Mac users, any Ctrl function on Windows = Cmnd on Mac! Ü
Ctrl+[Click on a link or bookmark] is also one.
Even though I use Middlemouse+[Click on a link or bookmark] usually.
Looking forward to see all Ctrl+Shift commands.
Oh, and forgot to add these
Ctrl+F4 closes current tab .
Ctrl+F5 (as prattmic also mentioned earlier) reloads the current page without using the cache.
Ctrl+F10 has the same function as the Alt key alone (move cursor to menubar).
And Ctrl+G searches for the next appear of last searched word (in the Danish FF version at least – test it out).
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Actually, Muskar, F10 has the same function as the ALT key alone, with or without CTRL.
If you’re in the search bar, you can use ALT+UP/DOWN to bring down a list of search engines, which you can then scroll through with the arrow keys.
Also … Ctrl + 1 through 9 = Quick switch between 9 open tabs.
CTRL+1-8 will switch between the first 8 tabs, and CTRL+9 will go to the last tab in your bar.
You should make a list of not only CTRL+* commands, as there are other keys that do things as well, like / for find, F3 for find again, etc.
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