Secret Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts

January 23rd, 2008 | Published in Firefox, Useful | 2 Comments

OK, they probably aren’t secret, but when I saw this list I was really amazed. I thought to myself, how could I have used Firefox all these years and not known about all of these?!! I new the new tab and full screen shortcuts, but certainly not Ctrl + K. Anyway, I’m betting that if I didn’t know all of them, there’s a good chance some of you didn’t either. So, without further ado, here are the Firefox keyboard shortcuts you’re going to wonder how you lived without:

CTRL + K - moves your cursor up to the search engine plug-in box. Once you’re there in the search box, use CTRL + the up or down arrow keys to scroll through the different search engines.
CTRL + SHIFT + T - re-opens the last closed tab.
SPACEBAR : scrolls down the webpage you’re on.
SHIFT + SPACEBAR : scrolls up the webpage you’re on.
F11 - removes the browser bars and makes the webpage full screen. Press F11 again to go back to normal.
CTRL + T - Opens a new tab window.

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Timothy says:

January 24th, 2008 at 12:08 am (#)

Thanks for this post! that No. 2 is going to be really useful!
Joolie says:

January 31st, 2008 at 12:30 am (#)

I tried number three before I read number four and then laughed when I realized I’d have to reach allll the way over to the mouse to get back to the post. Good list!