My 3 Favorite Firefox Shortcuts
Depending on who you listen to, Firefox is closing in on 20% market share in the browser wars. A recent report from Janco showed that Firefox has 19.95% of the market while Internet Explorer has 60%. Netscape has 9.68% to round out the top three.
For those of you who are Firefox users, here is a list of useful shortcuts to help you save time online.
ALT + D
Typing this in immediately takes you to the navigation bar of your browser. I can’t tell you how many times I use the navigation bar in any given day. Using this shortcut will help shave time off every time you need to type in a new url.
CTRL + T
This is probably my favorite shortcut. This one helps you load a new tab in firefox without having to use the mouse. It also automatically takes you to the new tab so you don’t have to use the mouse to click on the tab at the top.
CTRL + SHIFT & T
Accidentally close a tab that you need back? Use this shortcut to load the most recently closed tab. It can help save a lot of time if you navigated deep into a site, closed the tab and then realized that you needed the information again.
These are my three favorites. Do you use any other ones that could be of benefit to the Young Entrepreneur community?
Evan CarmichaelYoungEntrepreneur.com Blog Manager
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Also:
- Ctrl+[1,2….9]
Ctrl+tab can help you navigate alternate tabs but if you are a heavy tab user like me and want to go to a specific tab then just use Ctrl+corresponding tab number. Ex:To go to the 3rd tab use Ctrl+3 .
- Spacebar and Shift+Spacebar OR PageDown and PageUp
Spacebar or PageDown key scrolls down the webpage you’re on and Shift+Spacebar or PageUp scrolls up the webpage you’re on .
- The Middle Mouse Button
This is not a keyboard shortcut but it is an excellent shortcut . Just point to a link anywhere on a webpage and press the middle mouse(scroll) button . It opens the page in a new tab .
I hope these shortcuts will enhance your browsing productivity with Firefox . Do you know about other interesting shortcuts which I may have missed ?
One of the useful ones for me is Ctrl+PgUp, Ctrl+PgDn for cycling through the tabs.
Some people do not remember to use Alt (compared to Ctrl and vice versa). For them, Ctrl-L may be a useful alternative to Alt-D.
To ease Google search, use Ctrl-K.
Ctrl+D to close the current tab (or the browser window if no more tabs exist). Ctrl+D coupled with ctrl+W will make you a lean, mean, browsing machine overnight
crap, Ctrl+W I mean. Mods want to edit that last post?
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CTRL + T,
Thank You so much, Ive been opening new tabs with the mouse for ages. This is a real time saver.
Thanks Again.
Miltski
www.miltski.com
F6 gets you straight into the address bar (as opposed to Alt + D). Works on IE too.
Click a link while holding control and it’ll open in a new tab. That’s an awesome on our developer told me recently and saves doing the right click and selecting it from the menu…