Mouse-Keyboard Combo Tips

See also Mouse Tips and Firefox : Tips : Keyboard Tips.

Tabs

Open tabs

Hold down the Shift or CTRL key when left-clicking on a web page menu item (such as an item from the Back, Forward, Bookmarks and Go menus) to open it in a new window or a new tab.

Images

Hold down the Shift or Ctrl key when you right-click to "View Image" or "View Background Image" to open the image in a new window or a new tab.

Text

Text selections

To select text, left-click on part of a web page and then hold down Shift and use the arrow keys to make the selection.

Alternatively, left-click once in the window where you want the selection to start and then shift+click in the spot where you want the selection to end. This is a lot easier than click-selection-dragging.

Font Size

Hold down Ctrl and scroll up down with the mouse to change font size. (Internet Explorer has five font sizes; Firefox has dozens.)

If you hold down the Ctrl key and left-click on part of a web page, that section of the page will be highlighted. If you right click on the selection and choose 'View selection source', the source code for that part of the page will be displayed.