Firefox keyboard shortcuts
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Firefox
keyboard shortcuts
Below
is a listing of our top 10 favorite Firefox keyboard shortcuts. Learning these
shortcuts will greatly improve your productivity and overall experience with
Mozilla Firefox.
Ctrl+T
and middle-click
Pressing
Ctrl+T opens a blank new tab or if you want to open any link in a new tab press
your middle mouse button (often the scroll wheel) to open that link in a new
tab.
Ctrl+Shift+T
Oops,
close a tab you didn't want closed, press Ctrl+Shift+T to undo any tab close.
Pressing this multiple times will undo multiple closes.
Ctrl+L
or F6
Quickly
get to the URL address bar by pressing this function key.
Ctrl+F
or /
Pressing
Ctrl+F opens the find feature. Using this you can quickly find text within the
same page. If you want to do a quick find and have Firefox scroll to the text
location as you type press forward slash (/) instead while in the browser.
Ctrl+W
Close
the current.
Ctrl+Tab
or Ctrl+Shift+Tab
Move
between open tabs.
Ctrl+D
Open
bookmark window for page currently viewing.
Ctrl+,
Ctrl+, and Ctrl+0
Pressing
Ctrl+ will increase the font size, pressing Ctrl+ will decrease the font size, and if you want to reset the font size
back to the default press Ctrl+0.
F11
Make the
screen full screen, removing all toolbars and status bars.
Ctrl+J
Open
the Download Manager window.
Below is a listing of all the major shortcut keys in Mozilla Firefox. See the computer shortcut page if you are looking for other shortcut keys
used in other programs.
Shortcut Keys
|
Description
|
F5
|
Refresh current page, frame, or tab.
|
F11
|
Display the current website in fullscreen mode. Pressing F11
again will exit this mode.
|
Esc
|
Stop page or download from loading.
|
Spacebar
|
Moves down a page at a time.
|
Alt+Home
|
Open your homepage.
|
Alt+Down arrow
|
Display all previous text entered in a text box and
available options on drop-down menu.
|
Alt+Left Arrow
|
Back a page.
|
Alt+Right Arrow
|
Forward a page.
|
Ctrl+(- or +)
|
Increase or decrease the font size, pressing '-' will decrease
and '+' will increase. Ctrl+0 will reset back to default.
|
Ctrl+D
|
Add a bookmark for the page currently opened.
|
Ctrl+F
|
Access the Find option, to search for any text on the
currently open web page.
|
Ctrl+H
|
View browsing history.
|
Ctrl+I
|
Display available bookmarks.
|
Ctrl+J
|
Display the download window.
|
Ctrl+K or Ctrl+E
|
Move the cursor to the search box.
|
Ctrl+L
|
Move cursor to address box.
|
Ctrl+N
|
Open New browser window.
|
Ctrl+O
|
Access the Open File window to open a file in Firefox.
|
Ctrl+P
|
Print current page or frame.
|
Ctrl+T
|
Opens a
new tab.
|
Ctrl+F4 or Ctrl+W
|
Closes the currently selected tab.
|
Ctrl+F5
|
Refresh the page, ignoring the Internet cache (force
full refresh).
|
Ctrl+Enter
|
Quickly complete an address. For example, type computerhope in
the address bar and press Ctrl+Enter to get https://www.computerhope.com.
|
Ctrl+Tab
|
Moves through each of the open tabs.
|
Ctrl+Shift+Del
|
Open the Clear Data window to quickly clear private data.
|
Ctrl+Shift+B
|
Open the Bookmarks window, to view all bookmarks in Firefox.
|
Ctrl+Shift+J
|
Open the Browser Console to troubleshoot an
unresponsive script error.
|
Ctrl+Shift+P
|
Open a new Private Browsing window.
|
Ctrl+Shift+T
|
Undo the close of a window.
|
Ctrl+Shift+W
|
Close the Firefox browser window.
|
Shift+Spacebar
|
Moves up a page at a time.
|