Faster browsing in Firefox with a few keyboard shortcuts

October 26, 2009, Category: Internet

Mozilla Firefox - important keyboard shortcuts Keyboard shortcuts can do wonders to make your browsing super-fast in Mozilla Firefox. Moving your mouse to the exact location and then clicking on a button or a link can be a time-consuming and boring thing when you can achieve the same result by pressing a key, more so when your fingers are already at the keyboard. And, since you’ve to use mouse / keyboard several times in a single browser session, remembering a few important keyboard shortcuts for the common tasks in Firefox can save you a lot of time and make your browsing experience faster and convenient.

If it is not possible (and may not even be desirable) to learn by heart every keyboard shortcut available, you must try to remember at least the most commonly used keyboard shortcuts in Firefox. Some of these important keyboard shortcuts are described below.

  • Go back one page in history: Backspace [or Alt + Left Arrow]
  • Go forward one page in history: Shift + Backspace [or Alt + Right Arrow]
  • Home Page of browser: Alt + Home
  • Reload current page: F5 [or Ctrl + R]
  • Stop loading current page: Esc
  • Page down (i.e., scroll down) in current web page: Spacebar
  • Page up (i.e., scroll up) in current web page: Shift + Spacebar
  • Go to bottom of current page: End
  • Go to top of current page: Home
  • Zoom in (i.e., increase text size of page): Ctrl + =
  • Zoom out (i.e., decrease text size of page): Ctrl + -
  • Find a word in current page: Ctrl + F
  • Find again: F3 [or Ctrl + G]
  • Find Previous: Shift + F3
  • Print current page: Ctrl + P
  • Bookmark current page: Ctrl + D
  • View Page Source: Ctrl + U
  • New Tab: Ctrl + T
  • New Window: Ctrl + N
  • Close Tab: Ctrl + F4 [or Ctrl + W]
  • Close Window: Alt + F4 [or Shift + Ctrl + W]
  • Select Tab (1 to 8): Ctrl + (1 to 8) [for example, to select 2nd Tab: Ctrl + 2]
  • Select Last Tab: Ctrl + 9
  • Toggle Private Browsing: Ctrl + Shift + P
  • Select location bar: Ctrl + L
  • Select search bar: Ctrl + K

I’ve listed keyboard shortcuts only for the commonly used actions or commands. For full list of keyboard shortcuts, see the Help documentation in Firefox.

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1 Comment so far
  1. Arvind Devalia October 27, 2009 5:18 am

    This is an excellent list of short cuts and though this is available via the Help documentation in Firefox, it is useful to see it presented like this.

    I have just played around with a few of these shortcuts – and it is like magic. I may soon be able to abandon my mouse at this rate!

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