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20 FireFox Keyboard Shortcuts



FireFox is known as the World’s most popular browser, also being my favorite, and of many others too. It supports a wide range of applications and extensions, like Playing videos at its sidebar, Surfing in Stealth mode, and many others.

As my search for methods to increase my browsing productivity continues, I have come across some excellent keyboard shortcuts for Firefox which I am going to share with you today.

In order to make your working experience faster and easier, I would recommend to memorize these shortcuts. It will help you a lot.

I am sure you’ll benefit from it if you use Firefox as your browser:

1). Alt + D (navigate directly to the browser address bar)

2). Ctrl+T (Open a new tab)

3). CtrlCmd+N (Open a new FireFox Window)

4). Ctrl+Shift+T (re-opens the last closed tab)

5). Alt+Enter (automatically opens a website in another tab when you highlight it)

6). Ctrl+Tab (navigate between different firefox)

7). Ctrl+[1,2....9] (navigate alternate tabs)

8). Spacebar and Shift+Spacebar OR PageDown and PageUp ( navigate through the page)

9). CtrlCmd+F5 (Reload)

10). CtrlCmd+U (Page Source)

11). CtrlCmd(plus) - (Decrement in Text size)

12). Ctrl(plus)+ (Increment in Text size)

13). CtrlCmd+0 (Restores to Default Text size)

14). CtrlCmd+W (Close Active tab)

15). F7 (Caret Browsing)

16). CtrlCmd+Shift+Del (Clear Private Data)F11 (Full Screen Mode)

17). Alt+Up Arrow/Alt+Down Arrow/F4 ( (Select or Manage Search Engines, when Address Bar is active)

18). CTRL+Enter (Places .com at the end of URL)

19). Shift+Enter (Places .net at the end of URL)

20). CtrlCmd+Shift+Enter (Places .org at the end of URL)

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Patrick on September 19th, 2008 at 6:58 am

21. Ctrl+L is also address bar; Ctrl+E is Search bar.

G33k on April 18th, 2009 at 9:55 am

CTRL + enter places .com, you have shift enter twice

Musab Zain on April 18th, 2009 at 11:57 am

Thanks for pointing it out. Its corrected now!

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