Firefox keyboard shortcuts

 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.