tips @ 05 May 2008 01:41 pm by Tyler
UPDATE: It’s out, and I’ve uploaded a PDF of this cheatsheet to Scribd.com, for easy printing.
With the official release of Firefox 3 just around the corner (est. June 2008), I figured I’d share my compilation of Web browsing shortcuts. Am I missing anything in my cheatsheet?
The Basics
Reload F5 / Ctrl-R
Back Backspace, Shift-Backspace
Home Alt-Home
Stop Esc
Add Bookmark Ctrl-D
View Bookmarks Ctrl-B / Ctrl-I
View Downloads Ctrl-J
Lose The Mouse
Location Bar Focus Alt-D / F6 / Ctrl-L
*.com, .net, .org Ctrl-Enter, Shift-Enter, Ctrl-Shift-Enter
Search Bar Ctrl-E / Ctrl-K
*Choose Search Alt-[Up / Down]
Bottom, Top of Page End, Home
Page Down Spacebar
Caret Browsing F7
Further Investigation
View Page Source Ctrl-U
DOM Inspector Ctrl-Shift-I
Full Screen F11
Print, Save As Ctrl-P, Ctrl-S
Increase/Decrease Font Ctrl- [-/+]
Original Font Size Ctrl-0 [zero]
Tab Navigation
New Tab, Window Ctrl-T, -N
Next Tab Ctrl-Tab / Ctrl-Page Down
Previous Tab Ctrl-Shift-Tab / Ctrl-Page Up
Close Tab Ctrl-F4 / Ctrl-W
Open in New Tab Ctrl-Enter / -Click
Open in New Window Shift-Enter / -Click
Select Tab [1 to 9] Ctrl-[1 to 9]
Find It
Find, Find Again Ctrl-F, -G / F3
Find Previous Ctrl-Shift-G / Shift-F3
Find Link, Text ', /
Somebody’s Watching Me
View History Ctrl-H
Delete Autocomplete Entry Shift-Delete
Clear Private Data Ctrl-Shift-Del
Wicked Cool Stuff
Reload Closed Tab Ctrl-Shift-T
Reload, Override Cache Ctrl-F5 / Ctrl-Shift-R
Kill Animated GIFs Esc
Cache Information about:cache
Installed Plugins about:plugins
Configuration about:config
Developer Credits (bravo!) about:credits
Wouldn’t this make a great mug???
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Some Alternatives
Close Tab Ctrl-W
Next Tab Ctrl-Page Down
Previous Tab Ctrl-Page Up
Find Again F3
Thanks, Cesare! Just added ‘em.
After giving the focus to the search bar(ctrl k), you can change the search engines with ctrl up / ctrl down instead of alt up / alt down, I prefer this way because FF doesn’t show me the engines, just toggle them. If you have only a few searches (I have only 2) this is better IMO.
I found the site when I was searching if there’s any difference between ctrl e and ctrl k. It seems that there is none.
Firefox FTW!