Keyboard shortcuts
From MozillaZine Knowledge Base
- This article applies to Firefox.
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
- 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 - to change search engines once focus is on the search bar use Ctrl+Up/Down Arrow
- 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
- See also Using keyword searches
- If you wish to remove an item from your Address Bar Drop down menu, highlight it without clicking and use Shift+Delete
Search bar
- Ctrl+K brings you to the search bar. Type "Enter" to run your search or "Alt+Enter" to open search results in a new tab.
- Ctrl+Up/Ctrl+Down to cycle between the available choices of search engines
Clearing search history
You can clear the previous searches from the Search Bar. Just right-click it and select "Clear Search History". You can delete individual elements by selecting them and pressing "Shift+Del".
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)