Keyboard shortcuts

See also Mouse Tips and Mouse-Keyboard Combo Tips.

(More keyboard shortcuts can be found on another page; they will be integrated here in due course.)

Tabs

Navigate through tabs

Ctrl+TAB or Ctrl+PageUp lets you navigate in the tabs to the right.

Ctrl+Shift+Tab or Ctrl+PageDown lets you navigate in the tabs to the left

Tip

These wrap.

Ctrl and a number key will go to the tab indicated by the number.

(e.g. Ctrl+3 will go to the third tab from the left)

Opening and closing tabs

CTRL+T opens a new tab

CTRL+W closes current tab

Switching focus

Ctrl+L or Alt+D or F6 to switch focus to the address bar

Ctrl+K or Ctrl+E switches focus to the search bar

Cmd + ~ (only on Mac OS X) cycles through all open windows

Note

if you have a sidebar open, F6 switches between sidebar and address bar)

Address bar

Entering Address

Ctrl+Enter will add http://www. before and .com after the text in the toolbar and load the resulting url.

Shift+Enter will add http://www. and .net,

Ctrl+Shift+Enter will add http://www. and .org

Managing Dropdown menu

If you wish to remove an item from your Address Bar Drop down menu, Highlight it WITHOUT CLICKING and use Shift+Delete

Font Size

Hold Ctrl AND press + or - to change font size.

(the font changing on IE is 5 sizes. FF has dozens of size settings)