Nov
30
2007
Controlling Firefox With Your Fingers!
Posted by: ipp in Technology, tags: Firefox, Linux, OS X, Ubuntu, WindowsIf your like me you would much rather use your keyboard then mouse when surfing the web. Windows users will use Ctrl, OS X users will use Cmd (The Apple key).
Searching Pages
- Push / then start typing what you’re looking for, this performs a basic search on the page
- Push ‘ then start typing a link you are looking for, this performs a search for all links on the page
- Ctrl/Cmd+F brings up the regular search box.
Opening Pages
- Shift+Enter will open a link in a new window
- Ctrl/Cmd+Enter will open a link in a new tab
- Alt+Enter when focus is on either location or search bar will open that page in a new tab
Navigational Toolbar
- Ctrl/Cmd+L will select the location bar.
- Ctrl/Cmd+K will select the search bar
- Backspace/Delete will “go back”
- Shift+Backspace/Delete will “go forward”
- Ctrl+Down/Up will change search engines
Miscellaneous
- F5 will Refresh the page
- Ctrl/Cmd+F5 will refresh the page ignoring cache
- Ctrl/Cmd+Tab will move to the next tab
- Ctrl/Cmd+[1-9] will switch to tabs 1-9
- Ctrl/Cmd+T will create a new tab
- Ctrl/Cmd+W will close the current tab
- F7 will switch to Caret Browsing
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Thanks for these! Extremely helpful, especially on a laptop. I use Kubuntu and already knew most, but was new to the command for caret browsing and the alt+enter in the search/location fields. However, you forgot one. Ctrl+Enter while in the location field automatically appends the http://www and the .com to what’s already typed and then goes there. I wonder if ctrl+alt+enter works as well.