MOZILLA FIREFOX KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS

How to navigate the internet at lightning speed
Mozilla Firefox is a great browser, but one of its greatest features is one that few people bother to use - keyboard shortcuts. Spending just a few minutes learning the most common shortcuts can greatly increase the speed at which you browse web pages.



Enter URL

Location Bar Ctrl + L

Automatic.com Address Ctrl + Enter

Automatic.net Address Shift + Enter

Automatic.org Address Ctrl + Shift + Enter

Basic Navigation

You can access each of the navigation toolbar commands using keyboard shortcuts. They are listed below in the order in which they appear on the toolbar.

Previous Page Alt + Left

Next Page Alt + Right

Refresh Page Ctrl + R

Home Alt +Home

Stop Esc

Location Bar Ctrl + L

Book Mark
Current Page Ctrl + D

Search Engine Ctrl + K

Tabbed Browsing

In order to open a new (blank) tab, press Ctrl+T. To close a tab, press Ctrl+W. If you closed a tab by mistake and would like to recover it, press Ctrl+Shift+T.

If you are entering an address in the location bar, and would like to open it in a new tab, press Alt+Enter (or Alt plus any of the three combinations listed in the "Entering URLs" section). If you are browsing a page and see a link you would like to open in a new tab, hold Ctrl while clicking the link with your mouse (Ctrl+Click), press Ctrl+Enter after you Tab onto the link, or middle click the link. (Doing each of these will open the link in the background. In order to open the link in the foreground, also hold Shift during each of these shortcuts.)

If you have multiple tabs, you can directly access the first tab using Ctrl+1, the second tab using Ctrl+2, and so on up to Ctrl+8 (Ctrl+9 takes you to the last tab, regardless of its number). To move from one tab to the next, or one tab to the previous, press Ctrl+PageUp or Ctrl+PageDown.

Finally, to start a whole new group of tabs (that is, a new window), press Ctrl+N.


New Tab Ctrl + T

Close Tab Ctrl + W

Recovered
Close Tab Ctrl + Shift + T

Open
Address in
New Tab Alt + Enter

Open Link Ctrl+ Click
in New Tab Ctrl + Click
(Background) Middle Click

Open Link Ctrl + Shift + Click
in New Tab Ctrl +Shift + Enter
(Foreground) Shift + Middle Click

Select Tab Ctrl + (1 to 8)

Select Last
Tab Ctrl + 9

Next Tab Ctrl + Page Down

Previous Page Ctrl + Page Up

New Window Ctrl + N

Searching Page Text

To find a specific word or phrase in the text of a page, press Ctrl+F. To use the various search commands listed in the search bar, such as to find the "Next" instance of the word, press Alt and the letter underlined in the corresponding command. In the case of "Next" word, it would be Alt+N.

Find Ctrl + F

Next
Result Alt + N

Previous
Result Alt + P

Highlight
All Alt + A


Match
Case Alt + C


Miscellaneous

Book Marks Ctrl + B

History Ctrl + H

Downloads Ctrl + J

Zoom In Ctrl ++

Zoom Out Ctrl + -

Reset Zoom Ctrl + 0

Full Screen F11

Advance to
Next Click Tab

Help F1

Notes

This list is not exhaustive because I've omitted, for brevity, most of the obvious shortcuts (e.g., PageDown), redundant shortcuts (e.g., Alt+D), and esoteric shortcuts (e.g., Ctrl+Shift+D).

These shortcuts work in both Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 for both Windows and Linux. (However, there do exist shortcuts which will only work in one version or operating system.) Most of these shortcuts will work in Mac OS after substituting Cmd for Ctrl, Option for Alt, and Return for Enter.

For a more complete list of shortcuts, see the official Mozilla website.