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
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