Jan
23

Secret Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts

firefox_25 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:

  1. 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.
  2. CTRL + SHIFT + T – re-opens the last closed tab.
  3. SPACEBAR : scrolls down the webpage you’re on.
  4. SHIFT + SPACEBAR : scrolls up the webpage you’re on.
  5. F11 – removes the browser bars and makes the webpage full screen. Press F11 again to go back to normal.
  6. CTRL + T – Opens a new tab window.

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2 Comments to “Secret Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts”

  1. Timothy says:
    January 24, 2008 at 12:08 am

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

  2. Joolie says:
    January 31, 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!