Comments on: Mission Ctrl? All the Ctrl Key Shortcuts for Firefox

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Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:39:55 +0000

[...] (you can do this on open tabs too!) Where does this come in handy? Well let us say you are hitting Ctrl+T to open a new window. You are no longer greeted by an empty window. Instead you have a window with [...]

By: Jids

Jids — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:53:27 +0000

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.

By: CTRL Shortcuts for Firefox : ultimate geek girl

CTRL Shortcuts for Firefox : ultimate geek girl — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:25:08 +0000

[...] Some of these quick CTRL shortcuts for Firefox may be familiar to you, but others not so much. So check out this list, which was complied by Mitch over at Firefox Facts: [...]

By: Muskar

Muskar — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:43:04 +0000

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).

By: Muskar

Muskar — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:36:55 +0000

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.

By: Morti_Mouse

Morti_Mouse — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:44:18 +0000

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

By: prattmic

prattmic — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:33:12 +0000

@Mitch you can also use Ctrl+F5 to reload w/out cache in fewer presses.

By: a.

a. — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:34:07 +0000

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.)

By: Morbus

Morbus — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:12:55 +0000

@ 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.

By: Vishal

Vishal — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:21:33 +0000

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).