Comments on: Quick Tips: 20 Most Useful Mozilla Firefox Shortcuts

By: Ben2

Ben2 — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:11:01 +0000

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: Arun

Arun — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:14:24 +0000

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: Blake

Blake — Wed, 14 May 2008 08:48:48 +0000

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 . Enjoy and thanks for the article.

By: Syahid Ali

Syahid Ali — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 09:21:23 +0000

@Shankar: Nice addition Shankar!

By: Shankar Ganesh

Shankar Ganesh — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:11:40 +0000

Good list, but I think you missed CTRL + SHIFT + T
It restores the last closed tab.