We all love to surf the ever-expanding web and I prefer to waste a few hours in doing that on a daily basis. To make things faster, I use a set handy of shortcuts. Let me share the shortcuts with you .. (I prefer to use Firefox as my default browser. But I do use Internet explorer (IE) too.)
| To do | Press ..(In Firefox ) | Press ..(In Internet Explorer) |
| Open new tab | Ctrl + T | |
| Open new window | Ctrl + N | Ctrl + N |
| Open link in new tab | Hold down Ctrl key and click the link | |
| Open link in new window | Hold down Shift key and click the link | Hold down Shift key and click the link |
| Go to next page | Shift + Backspace | Alt + Right (->) |
| Go to previous page | Backspace | Alt + Left (<-) |
| Find | Ctrl + F | Ctrl + F |
| Find next | F3 | F3 |
| View source | Ctrl + U | |
| View selection source | Select the lines > Right click > Click on “View Selection Source”. | |
| View history | Ctrl + H | Ctrl + H |
| TIP: This is a pretty smart feature that helps you find a previously viewed webpage very easily. For example in the morning I found a nice online bike racing game but didn’t manage to play it due to lack of time. In the evening I wanted to try my luck but unfortunately I didn’t remember the URL. So I pressed Ctrl + H and then typed “bike” in the searchbox. Firefox gave me a list of URLs that contain the word bike in the title. It made my task easy and I found the URL! This tip works in IE too. | ||
| View Bookmark | Ctrl + B | Ctrl + B |
| TIP: This is another smart feature that helps you find a bookmark very easily from a long list. The trick works similar to the previous tip. | ||
| Bookmark a page | Ctrl + D | Ctrl + D |
| Refresh page | F5 | F5 |
| Clear local web cache and refresh page | Ctrl + F5 | Ctrl + F5 |
| TIP:Helps you see the latest version of the current webpage. | ||
| Increase font size | Ctrl + Scroll Up | Ctrl + Scroll Up |
| Decrease font size | Ctrl + Scroll Down | Ctrl + Scroll Down |
| Outline table cells | Ctrl + Click | |
| TIP: This shortcut is very handy specially for web designers and it helps in viewing the boundaries of a table cell (td). | ||
| Google a word from the current page | Select the word > Right click > Click on “Search Web for “word“ | |
| Close a tab | Move your cursor over the tab > Middle click | |
| Move a tab | Click on the tab > Drag it before/after a tab and drop | |
| Use Google’s I am feeling lucky feature | View tip | |
Apart from this list there are plenty of other Firefox/IE shortcuts/tips available in the following webpages:
- Firefox Help: Keyboard Shortcuts
- Firefox Shortcuts and Tips Also includes some cool games
- Hack Attack: Mouse-less Firefox
- Internet Explorer Keyboard Shortcuts
- A list of Internet Explorer keyboard shortcuts
