Garri

In my free time, I do programming.

June 2007 - Posts

Firefox keyboard tricks

I have been a religious Firefox user ever since I dumped that incapable, untrustworthy,.. IE6. I have fell in love with firefox tab browsing, eye candy skins and a pack of great extensions. But with these tons of great features our mouse gestures are becoming cumbersome. This is a time for some ninja keyboard techniques. Here’s the top 15 keyboard techniques that can help you slash your way to that tedious mouse gestures.

Create new Tab.
Ctrl+T

Close current Tab.
Ctrl+W

Highlight the URL in the Address Bar
Ctrl+L
-or–
Alt-D

Find a text or a series of characters
Ctrl+F

Find Next series of characters after enabling Find
Alt-N

Open tab in the Left of the currently viewed tab.
Ctrl+PageUp

Open tab in the Right of the currently viewed tab.
Ctrl+PageDown

Go to the search box.
Ctrl+K

Page Down
Spacebar

Page Up
Shift-Spacebar

Book a page
Ctrl+D

Increase text size in a page
Ctrl+=

Decrease text size in a page
Ctrl+-

Reload web page
F5

Go to your homepage
Alt-Home

Got some of your own tips? Let us now in the comments.

 

Posted: 06-04-2007 5:02 PM by Garri | with 7 comment(s) |
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