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Alexio		 Score: 1
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 Firefox Keyboard and Mouse Shortcuts

Browser Management

F1 : Help
F7 : Caret Browsing (a kind of keyboard navigation within a text document)
Ctrl + D : Add Bookmark (Bookmark This Page)
Ctrl + Shift + D : Bookmark All Tabs
Ctrl + B or Ctrl + I : Bookmarks Sidebar (toggle)
Ctrl + H : Browsing History (toggle)
Ctrl + J : Downloads
Ctrl + Shift + Y or Ctrl + Y (for older versions) : Download History
Ctrl + Shift + Del : Clear Private Data
Ctrl+ Shift + J : Error Console

Page Manipulation

F11 : Full Screen (toggle)
Ctrl + Plus or Ctrl + Mouse Scroll down : Increase Text Size
Ctrl + Minus or Ctrl + Mouse Scroll up : Decrease Text Size
Ctrl + 0 (zero) : Restore Text Size
Ctrl + P : Print
F5 or Ctrl + R : Reload Page
Ctrl + F5 or Ctrl + Shift + R or Shift + Browser Reload button : Force Reload Page (override cache)
Esc : Stop Loading
Ctrl + S : Save Page As
Ctrl + U : Page Source
Ctrl + I : Page Info
Ctrl + Shift + I : DOM Inspector

Page Navigation

⇩(Down Arrow) or Alt + Mouse Scroll down : Go Down One Line
⇧(Up Arrow) or Alt + Mouse Scroll up : Go Up One Line
Page Down or Spacebar or Shift + Backspace : Go Down One Screen (for Backspace to work like on Windows set browser.backspace_action to 0 in about:config)
PageUp or Shift + Spacebar or Backspace : Go Up One Screen (for Backspace to work like on Windows set browser.backspace_action to 0 in about:config)
End : Go to Bottom of Page
Home : Go to Top of Page
F6 : Move to Next Frame
Shift + F6 : Move to Previous Frame
Tab : Move Focus to Next Actionable Item
Shift + Tab : Move Focus to Previous Actionable Item<
Ctrl + Plus (+) : Zoom In
Ctrl + Minus (-) : Zoom Out
Ctrl + 0 (Zero) : Zoom Reset

Web Navigation

Alt + Home : Open Home Page
Alt + ⇦ (Left Arrow) or Ctrl + [ or Shift + Mouse Scroll down or Backspace : Back One Page
Alt + ⇨ (Right Arrow) or Ctrl + ] or Shift + Mouse Scroll up or Shift + Backspace : Forward One Page
Enter or Mouse Left-click : Open Link
Ctrl + Enter or Ctrl + Mouse Left-click or Mouse Middle-click : Open Link in a New Background Tab (opening a link in a new background or foreground tab can be inversed in the Options/Preferences menu, Tabs tab, ticking the option when I open a new tab, switch to it immediately)
Ctrl + Shift + Mouse Left-click or Shift + Mouse Middle-click : Open Link in a New Foreground Tab
Mouse Middle-click in Browser Tab : Paste URL in Browser Tab (for Middle-click not to paste URL in tab set middlemouse.contentLoadURL to false in about:config)
Shift + Enter or Shift + Mouse Left-click : Open Link in New Window
Alt + Enter : Save Link Target As
F7 : Caret Browsing

Tabs

Ctrl + T or Mouse Double-Click on Browser Tab Bar : Open New Tab
Ctrl + W or Ctrl + F4 or Mouse Middle-click on Browser Tab : Close Tab (close Window if only one tab)
Ctrl + Shift + T : Undo Close Tab
Ctrl + Tab or Ctrl + Page Down : Next Tab
Ctrl + Shift + Tab or Ctrl + Page Up : Previous Tab
Ctrl + 1 : Select Tab 1 (works also for tabs numbered 2 to 9)
Ctrl + 9 : Select Last Tab (if more than 9 tabs)
Ctrl + ⇦ (Left Arrow) or Ctrl + ⇧(Up Arrow) : Move Tab Left (when tab is focused)
Ctrl + ⇨ (Right Arrow) or Ctrl + ⇩ (Down Arrow) : Move Tab Right (when tab is focused)
Ctrl + Home : Move Tab to Beginning (when tab is focused)
Ctrl + End : Move Tab to End (when tab is focused)
Alt + Enter : Open Address in New Tab (from Location Bar or Search Bar)

Windows

Ctrl + N : Open New Window
Ctrl + Shift + W or Alt + F4 : Close Window

Location Bar

Ctrl + L or Alt + D : Select Location Bar (to use the next shortcuts)
Ctrl + Enter : Complete .com Address
Shift + Enter : Complete .net Address
Ctrl + Shift + Enter : Complete .org Address
Del : Delete Selected Autocomplete Entry
Alt + Enter : Open Address in New Tab
Ctrl + O : Open File

Search Engines

Ctrl + K or Ctrl + J or Ctrl + E : Select Search Bar (Web Search)
Ctrl + ⇩(Down Arrow) : Select Next Search Engine in Search Bar
Ctrl + ⇧(Up Arrow) : Select Previous Search Engine in Search Bar
Alt + ⇩ (Down Arrow) or Alt + ⇧(Up Arrow) or F4 : Open List of Search Engines in Search Bar

Forms

⇩ (Down Arrow) : Select Next Entry
⇧(Up Arrow) : Select Previous Entry
Spacebar : Toggle Checkbox

Auto Complete

⇩ (Down Arrow) : Select Next Auto-Complete Entry
⇧(Up Arrow) : Select Previous Auto-Complete Entry
Shift + Del : Delete Individual Auto-Complete Entry

Text Manipulation

Ctrl + A or Alt + A : Select All
Ctrl + X : Cut
Ctrl + C : Copy
Ctrl + V : Paste
Del : Delete
Ctrl + Z : Undo
Ctrl + Shift + Z or Ctrl + Y : Redo

Search in Page

Ctrl + F : Find in This Page
F3  Ctrl + G : Find Again
Shift + F3 or Ctrl + Shift + G : Find Previous
/ (slash) : Quick Find Text (Find As You Type Text)
' (apostrophe) : Quick Find Link

Recommended reading:

Firefox Keyboard and Mouse Shortcuts - A comprehensive list, organized by topic, of keyboard and mouse shortcuts for Firefox 3.5 and Firefox 3.6 on each of the major operating systems.

Firefox 3 Keyboard Shortcuts - ShortcutMania.com online database of keyboard shortcuts

Tags: shortcuts Firefox
Created: 2 years ago.
Last edited: 2 years ago.
Reviewed: 1 year ago.
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Comments
1 week ago

mideal
Thanks.
Any suggestions how to change these?
Where are the shortcut in/of menues (the underlined letters) stored?
I can't find the i14n/l10n files where I could fix some minor errors
(double letter assignments in German language menues).
  
1 year ago

Thinker
Very helpful,Thanks(4)  
1 year ago

hithirdwavedust
This is a winner!  
2 years ago

grim
Awesomely useful, thanks!  
2 years ago

efthialex
Good one! (y)  

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