Keyboard shortcuts

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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

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 - 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

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

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.