Comments on: Firefox Shortcut Keys

By: shyam

shyam — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:23:34 +0000

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

By: hardly

hardly — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:51:43 +0000

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.

By: Jian

Jian — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:06:37 +0000

Here's a shortcut tutorial: Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts

By: Fred W

Fred W — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:15:33 +0000

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 ))

By: 1soup

1soup — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:08:54 +0000

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

By: http://www.technorati.com/people/technorati/AHinMaine

http://www.technorati.com/people/technorati/AHinMaine — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:20:00 +0000

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

By: omegamormegil

omegamormegil — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:43:48 +0000

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

By: Mike Burton

Mike Burton — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:51:08 +0000

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.

By: mlissner

mlissner — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:16:37 +0000

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.

By: Andrew Conkling

Andrew Conkling — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:43:56 +0000

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.