Quick Tips: 20 Most Useful Mozilla Firefox Shortcuts
December 19, 2007 – 12:19 amMozilla Firefox is still the best web browser that you can use today. To use it effectively, you need to master its keyboard shortcuts.
In this post, I will list down 20 of the most useful Mozilla Firefox shortcuts that you can use. I guarantee that these shortcuts will help you to speed up your web browsing activities, which may results in increased productivity (provided that you are not browsing Youtube! LOL!).
General Shortcuts
1- Ctrl+D - Bookmark a webpage
2- F11 - Go full screen
3- F5 - Refresh a webpage
4- Ctrl+S - Save a webpage as…
Navigational Shortcuts
5- Alt+Left Arrow - Back to previous page
6- Alt+Right Arrow - Forward to next page
7- Alt+Home - Go to home page
8- Ctrl+L - Jump to and highlight adress bar
9- Ctrl+K - Jump to search bar
10- Esc - Stop a loading webpage
11- Home - Go to top of page
12- End - Go to bottom of page
Tab Related Shortcuts
13- Ctrl+T - Open a new tab
14- Ctrl+Tab - Move to next tab
15- Ctrl+W - Close tab
Text Related Shortcuts
16- Ctrl + + - Increase font size
17- Ctrl + - - Decrease font size
Search Related Shortcuts
18- Ctrl+F - Jump to “Find in this page”
19- F3 - Find next item
20- Shift+F3 - Find previous item
There are many other Mozilla Firefox shortcuts too, but these are what I think most useful. Do you have any other shorcuts to share? Do leave a comment below!
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5 Responses to “Quick Tips: 20 Most Useful Mozilla Firefox Shortcuts”
Good list, but I think you missed CTRL + SHIFT + T
It restores the last closed tab.
By Shankar Ganesh on Dec 20, 2007
By Syahid Ali on Dec 23, 2007
I just discovered while trying out the “Next Tab” shortcut on my MacBook’s keyboard that it didn’t work. However, I opened a new blank tab and played around with the keys and discovered that “fn + option + left arrow key” (”alt+left” on the MacBook keyboard in a blank tab) opens your home page. Also, the Mac shortcuts are a bit different (like “back” is Command+left instead of Alt+left). That’s just platform-specific differences.
Also, I don’t know if this is specific to Firefox or not but without going “Ctrl/Cmd+K” and typing your search terms and then clicking the result you’re looking for, you can just type something like “firefox addons” in the address bar (”Ctrl/Cmd+L”) and hit enter, and it’ll load the Firefox Addons page. So far it’s worked wonderfully for me.
Another thing I’ll mention is when you’re in the address bar, you can type the address of the site (like “firefox”) and the hit Ctrl/Cmd+Enter to add the prefix “http://www.” and the suffix “.com”. “Shift+Enter” adds the suffix of “.net,” and “Shift+Ctrl/Cmd+Enter” adds the suffix of “.org” to what you’ve typed in there.
Firefox has got some sweet timesavers hidden away, and they’re so cool to discover. Just play with the keyboard, see how little you can use your mouse - while exerting the least amount of effort of course :P. Enjoy and thanks for the article.
By Blake on May 14, 2008
Nice tips! Some of the other common keyboard shortcuts that I use are:
/ - Search text as you type
‘ - Search links as you type
Ctrl+F12 - Undo close tabs
By Arun on Jul 7, 2008
If you enable the “Quick Search”, searching will become easier! Just type the word and navigate using “F3″ or “Shift + F3″.
Previously I don’t use “Quick Search” because I can’t search for the next or previous occurrences. Thanks to your F3 tips, I won’t be using “Ctrl + F” anymore!
To enable “Quick Search”:
1. Click: ‘Tools’ > ‘Options’
2. Choose: ‘Advance’, then click ‘General’ tab
3. Under ‘Accessibility’, check “Search for text when I start typing”
4. Press ‘OK’
By Ben2 on Jul 10, 2008