Monday, February 16, 2009

Mozilla Firefox Shortctus (72 Shortcuts)


Navigating between Websites with Firefox
1 alt+home Go to homepage (typically people's favorite search engine)
2 alt+arrow left or back One page backwards
3 alt+arrow right One page forward
4 alt+d or ctrl+l Jump to address bar and selects all text in it
5 ctrl+enter Complete .com address in the address bar. Type in for example "firefox" and press ctrl+enter
6 shift+enter Complete .net address. Type in for example "firefox" and press shift+enter
7 ctrl+shift+enter Complete .org address. Type in for example "firefox" and press ctrl+shift+enter
8 ctrl+b or ctrl+i Show bookmarks. After that you can press tab and use the arrow keys to navigate between bookmarked pages. arrow left and arrow right will expand/shrink bookmark folders marked with the little '+' or '-' signs. Pressing this keyboard shortcut a second time closes the Bookmark Sidebar
9 ctrl+d Add bookmark
10 ctrl+shift+d Bookmark all tabs
11 alt+b+a-z Jumps to any bookmarked website in your main bookmark folder which begins with the letter you specify. Example: I have one bookmark which I named "LEO" (which is my favorite German-English Online Dictionary dict.leo.org). I press alt+b+l and I am on the LEO website within a second. If you have more than one bookmark with the same letter, it jumps to the first entry and you have to press enter to after alt+b+letter to get to the website. It will take you a minute to setup and organize your bookmarks but save you hours in the long run.
12 ctrl+h Show history. Then you can press tab twice and use the ARROW KEYS to navigate between visited sites. Pressing ctrl+H again closes the History Sidebar

Working with the Firefox Browser Tabs
13 ctrl+t
ctrl+shift+t
Open new tab in the same Window
Opens the lastly closed tab
14 ctrl+tab or ctrl+page down Jump to next tab
15 ctrl+shift+tab or ctrl+page down Jump to previous tab
16 ctrl+1 - ctrl+9 Jump to tab 1 - 9
17 ctrl+w or ctrl+q Close Browser Tab

Navigating within websites with Mozilla Firefox
18 arrow down Down one line. The ideal way to scroll through websites
19 arrow up Up one line. The ideal way to scroll through websites
20 tab Jump to next link when cursor is positioned in browser window. Other than that, jumps between address-bar and browser-tabs
21 shift+tab Jump to previous link when cursor is positioned in browser window. Other than that, jumps between address-bar and browser-tabs
22 enter Open selected link
23 shift+enter Open a selected link in new window
24 enter Open selected link
25 shift+enter Open a selected link in new window
26 alt+enter Download a selected link (replaces right mouse-button, "save as" and "return"
27 ctrl+enter Open a selected link in a (new background) tab
28 ctrl+- Decrease text size
29 ctrl++ Increase text size
30 ctrl+0 Default text size
31 f5 or ctrl+r Reload Page
32 ctrl+f5 Reload Page with Cache override
33 escape Stop loading page. Can also be sued to close search window if it is open
34 f6 Go to next frame (or switches between address bar and browser window if page has no frames)
35 shift+f6 Go to previous frame
36 F7 Turn caret mode on/off (navigation with keyboard)
37 shift+f10 Open Context Menu. If you are for example on a link within a website, you could press shift+F10 and then C to copy link location

Working with Forms in Mozilla Firefox
38 tab Jumps to next Form Element
39 shift+tab Jumps to previous Form Element. If an entry in the previous field is already made, the complete entry is marked. If you want to enter something new, simply start to type and the new entry replaces the old form entry. If you want to keep the old entry, Simply press the home or END keyboard shortcut to go to the beginning end of the entry.
40 space Activates and/or deactivates Radio Buttons and Check boxes
41 alt+arrow down Select Select from a drop down menu. Then use arrow up and arrow down plus return to make your choice
42 ctrl+x Cut (when working in forms)
43 ctrl+v Paste selected text when working with forms

Find text and links in websites
44 ctrl+f or ' Open search window and find key phrase in page (as you type)
45 / Open search window and find link in page (as you type)
46 f3 or ctrl+g Find next
47 escape Close search window
48 shift+f3 Find previous

Working with the Firefox Browser Window
49 ctrl+n or alt+f+n Opens new Browser Window
50 ctrl+shift+w or alt+f4 Close browser window
51 alt+space Opens the Title Bar Menu (applicable all Windows Application)
52 alt+space+enter Restores Firefox Window to smaller size if window is spreading on full screen (replaces the "restore button" on top right corner of title bar)
53 alt+space+x Restores Firefox Window to maximum size if window is not maximized (replaces the "maximize button" on top right corner of title bar)
54 alt+space+n Minimizes Firefox Window to (replaces the "minimize button" on top right corner of title bar)

Accessing and working with the Firefox Menu Bar
55 alt or f10 Jumps to the menu bar. From here you can use arrow left, arrow right, arrow up and arrow down plus enter to navigate and activate between the menu items on top of the browser window. Usually the same in all Windows Application.
56 alt+f Opens File Menu
57 alt+e Opens Edit Menu
58 alt+v Opens View Menu
59 alt+g Opens Go Menu

Other Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts
60 ctrl+a Select all. Useful, if you want to for example copy text out of websites. I use it often to copy articles in a plain text editor, remove the advertising and print it out.
61 ctrl+c Copy selected text
62 ctrl+p Print
63 alt+f+v Print Preview - File - Print Preview
64 ctrl+o Open file
65 ctrl+u Show page source
66 ctrl+s Save page as
67 f1 Firefox Help
68 f11 Full page view
69 ctrl+j Show Download Window. Pressing ctrl+J again (or alt+F4 closes the window again
70 ctrl+e Jump to search bar (usually located in top right corner)
71 ctrl+k Jump to search bar (usually located in top right corner)
72 ctrl+arrow up Toggle Search Engines when in search field (after ctrl+E got you there)


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