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Firefox keyboard shortcuts

11th February 2013 Paul Chris Jones

Out of Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera (and who knows what else?) I find Firefox to be the fastest and most reliable internet browser. I've been learning shortcuts to make the experience even faster. A full list is here.

Opening webpages

Typing 'f' in the url bar brings up facebook.

The most useful firefox shortcut is:

From here, there's no need to type the full web address of things - if I simply type f and hit enter, Firefox knows me well enough to assume I want facebook. If I type h and press enter, it'll take it to hotmail.

I suppose Firefox keeps a record of how many times you've visited a site, and will give your more frequented sites a higher place in the autofill.

So to open facebook in just a few keystrokes I'd press:

Another useful tip is:

The search bar

If you know you need to search (i.e., use google):

Tabs

Tabs are a great invention - I remember back in the day when we had to open new windows just to have 2 webpages open at once. Now I usually have no less than 10 different tabs open at a time.

Here's some basic tab shortcuts:

To maneoveur between tabs, there's 3 ways to do it.

With your left hand...

...with your right hand...

...or you can also go directly to the tab you want, instead of scrolling through them:

Too many tabs open

This last method is useful for getting to the first first tabs, but becomes difficult to work out which tab is 7 or 8 (9 takes you to the last tab, by the way). Also becomes unuseful when you have so many tabs open you can't see the first tab anymore, so don't know what numbers the other tabs are.

Other useful shortcuts

There's a very useful shortcut to go back and forth between pages you've just visited.

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Paul Chris Jones is a writer and dad living in Girona, Spain. You can follow Paul on Instagram, YouTube and Twitter.