Internet Tips and Tricks

Take advantage of tabbed browsing

Take full advantage of tabbed browsing on all Internet browsers. While reading an article or browsing a website, you may come across a link that interests you. Any link to another page can be opened in a new tab so it does not interrupt your reading. To perform this action, hold down the Ctrl key and left-click the link. If you have a mouse with a wheel, click the link by depressing the wheel instead of rolling it. Either of the methods opens a link in a new window.

Tip: To open an new blank tab, press Ctrl+T at the same time.

You don't need the http:// portion of a web page

When entering an Internet address you do not need to type http:// or even www. in the address. For example, if you wanted to visit Computer Hope you could just type computerhope.com and press enter. To make things even quicker, if you are visiting a .com address you can type computerhope and then press Ctrl+Enter to type out the full https://www.computerhope.com address.

Quickly move between the fields of a web page

If you are filling out an online form, e-mail, or other text field you can quickly move between each of the fields by pressing the Tab key or Shift+Tab to move back a field. For example, in the example form below you can click in the "First Name" field type anything and press tab to switch to the next field.

Tip: This tip also applies to buttons, if you press tab the buttons can also be highlighted. Once a button is highlighted press the spacebar or enter to push the button.

Tip: With a drop-down box that lists dozens of options you can press the first letter to scroll down to that letter. For example, click the drop down box below and then press "u" to quickly scroll to Utah.

Bonus Tip: You can also use the autofill feature to fill in common form fields.

Know your Internet browser shortcuts

There are dozens of different shortcut keys that can be used with Internet browsers. Below are a few of our top suggested Internet browser shortcuts.

• Press Alt+D or Ctrl+L to move the cursor into the address bar.
• Hold down the Ctrl key and press the + or - to increase and decrease the size of text. Ctrl+0 will reset the text.
• Press the backspace key or press Alt key + left arrow to go back a page.
• Press F5 or Ctrl+R to refresh or reload a web page.
• Press F11 to make the Internet browser screen full screen. Press F11 again to return to the normal view.
• Press Ctrl+B to open your Internet bookmarks.
• Press Ctrl+F to open the find box to search for text within the web page you are reading.

How Automatically Repeat YouTube videos

YouTube does not allow you to automatically repeat your favorite videos, but there are plenty of third-party services that can assist you. The following steps will teach you how to put any YouTube on repeat.

How to put a YouTube video on repeat

First, you'll need to browse to the video you'd like to repeat. Then, you will edit the URLin the address bar, in the manner shown above below.

Note: The video you choose doesn't matter, the URL below is one we've chosen as an example to illustrate the process.

Editing Steps

1.     Erase everything in front of youtube. In the example above, "https://www" is the section that is deleted.

2.     After youtube, type repeat to make the URL look like the one shown below, and then press Enter.

3.     After pressing Enter, your browser will open a page with a URL similar to the one shown here: http://www.listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=dD40VXFkusw

4.     This page will repeat your video until it is closed.

Tip: This page also has a counter to let you know how many times the video has been repeated.