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A couple more:
Ctrl-F4: Close tab
Ctrl-Shift-Tab: Previous tab

One that I use a lot:
/ brings up quick search
F3 for next item in the search

to change search engines.

ctrl+k to focus search engine box,

then ctrl+up or ctrl+down to change search engines.

holding ctrl+k and hitting up or down is awkward

Do you know smart keywords? I very much prefer them over the search engines box, they’re faster and easier to use. You should give them a try:

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/smart-keywords.html

One or two there I had missed. Thanks!

Hitting Ctrl+K and then press Alt+Up/Down to view and choose from the whole list of your search engines.

Thnx for the ctrl + tab!
didn’t know that.

And a little addition:
I also use / for search a lot, but instead of F3 i use ctrl + G to go to next search item..

Alt+[1-8] work numerically as you expect, selecting the first through eighth tab respectively, but alt-9 takes you to the last (rightmost) tab, not the ninth one (unless you only have 9 tabs open). Useful for jumping to that tab you just opened up in the background.

Also,
Ctrl+I opens “page Information. Can be useful, for example, when you want to download a background image or hidden image from a page.

Thanks for the search engine shortcuts, I’ve been wondering.
/ Mats

alt + d: address bar too.

This one is very handy.

yes, very nice, but HOW DO YOU CHANGE THEM?

After opening the menu of search engines (Ctrl+K Alt+Down) you can choose search engine by typing the first letter in it’s name. If several search engines share their first letter you cycle through them by repeating the letter and choose one by hitting return.

So “Ctrl+K Alt+Down I” selects IMDb for me.

My favorite tab-related shortcut is actually something an extension provides. LastTab gives you an Alt+Tab-like navigation of tabs in recently used order.

Also, F6 works to highlight the address bar, but is there a shortcut to highlight the browser window itself? A lot of the shortcuts don’t work when you’re in the Search box/Location bar, but there doesn’t seem to be a reliable way to get out of there.

backspace will take you back to the previous page, if you set browser.backspace_action variable in about:config.

Space will scroll down. Some oldies but goodies. Also, turning on “Find as you type” makes life oh so much easier.

Also, if you press apostrophe before doing a search, it will only search links, I believe.

When I run Firefox on my EEE PC, the first thing I do is hit the F11 key. That ensures that Firefox uses every bit of screen real estate. Makes the browsing experience on that 7″ screen much more pleasant.

Ctrl+Shift+click, drag and drop tab onto tab bar to duplicate tab, with full history. Used to be one of my favorite extensions.

There’s a nice cheatsheat of shortcuts here:
http://www.chrisdottodd.com/2006/10/firefox-keyboard-shortcuts.html

if you click a hot link, one that has been coded with “www.example.com”
with your mouse wheel, it will open in a new tab

There’s a nice cheatsheat of shortcuts here:
http://www.chrisdottodd.com/2006/10/firefox-keyboard-shortcuts.html

http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2008/06/22/firefox-shortcut-keys/

http://snipurl.com/3c5qc

Thank you very much for this. This is my second go-around with Firefox and am just getting started again and this is a good sheet to have. Thanks. Fred ))

Here’s a shortcut tutorial:

Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts

There are a few things that I have noticed that are pretty helpful.
Lets say that you want to go to http://www.example.com, you type "example" and then press CTRL+ENTER to wrap the http:// and the .com around it.
SHIFT+ENTER wraps with .net
CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER wraps with .org.

This is very helpful! Thanks a lot for the post.