Garri

In my free time, I do programming.

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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jokiz said:

bookmark a page? let me guess, you're not a delicious user are you?  try it, online storage is better.

# June 4, 2007 4:00 AM

bonskijr said:

using deliciious for bookmarks.. it even overrides the default CTRL+D for bookmarking.. Yes

add'l:

CTRL+<plus>= also increases the font size.. consistent with adobe photoshop..

CTRL+0 = reverts to normal font size..

CTRL+K = jump to search box

hth

ps: you could also get hold of Hit a Hint and SearchKEys extensions for a truly mouseless experience

# June 4, 2007 4:18 AM

jokiz said:

agree on HaH and SearchKeys tip, :p

# June 4, 2007 4:47 AM

Garri said:

yes not a del.icio.us user. Foxmarks po gamit ko eh hehehe. Anyway del.icio.us is great.

# June 4, 2007 6:53 PM

man_at_the_third_row said:

OT: Pasali ha. For Bookmarks, I'm using Google History. It records ALL of the pages that you visited.

No Clicks.

www.google.com.ph/history

# June 7, 2007 2:43 AM

jokiz said:

@man_at_third - delicious i think is better, at least you can associate a tag for easier searching, no clicks also, i'm using all keyboard

# June 7, 2007 5:20 AM

man_at_the_third_row said:

Nice. I'll try it one of these days. Thanks.

# June 7, 2007 8:27 PM