If 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

Want to look at more shortcuts? Click here!

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