Keyboard shortcuts
- This article applies to Firefox.
See also the Help menu within the application, as well as Mouse Tips and Mouse-Keyboard Combo Tips.
(More keyboard shortcuts can be found on another page; they will be integrated here in due course.)
Note: "Ctrl" may differ by system (e.g., "ctrl" may actually be "command" (apple key) for Mac OSX).
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
- Option+Up or Option-down will pull up the search menu options while the cursor is in the search menu. One can then use the up and down arrows to choose the desired search engine.
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)
HTML Buttons
There are site-specific shortcuts for use on HTML buttons (such as for wikis) which allow keyboard shortcuts. For example, by hovering the mouse over the "save page" or "show preview" button on the edit page of a Mediawiki wiki (such as MozillaZine), one will see a tooltip indicating the relevant shortcut (i.e., alt-s (or ctrl-s) and alt-p (or ctrl-p) for saving and previewing, respectively).
The program Skeleton Access Key (not presently upgraded for 1.5) would show if and what shortcuts were available for a page.