Just over two years ago I started to use Firefox and couldn’t be happier. Back then, the main feature that made me excited was tabbed browsing, something that was not available in Internet Explorer at the time (it is now with IE7). Among the obvious tabs, the speed of it launching along with the ability to customize nearly everything is simply amazing. Now I’ll admit, I’m far from a power user and I don’t have my browser all

skinned out with some crazy looking graphics, but I do have a few shortcuts to make browsing a bit more enjoyable and faster.

  • Type in the website you want to without the www. or the .com, then hit CTRL + Enter and it will put in the www. and the .com. Shift + Enter will give you the .net extension while CTRL + Shift + Enter will give you the .org extension.
  • Press down on the scroll wheel of your mouse to open a link in a new tab. Who knew the scroll wheel could do more then scroll! This also works for any bookmarks you may have, including the bookmarks toolbar.
  • Press down on the scroll wheel of your mouse on an open tab to close it.
  • CTRL + T: opens a new tabbed window. Nothing magical there, but it works faster then going to File > New Tab
  • When your in your address bar, hit Tab to move the blinky over to the search menu. I use this a lot when writing articles for Randomn3ss.com or posting forum replies that I need to get a little more info for from the web. I’ll CTRL + T to get a new window then Tab to get to the search box, this is much faster then taking my hands off the keyboard to move the mouse.
  • With multiple tabs open, CTRL + Tab will scroll through them one by one.
  • If you use auto complete in Firefox for forms, you have more then likely typed in a username or street address or something wrong and now see a big list in there, which can be annoying. In any form, double click in it while empty and you should see everything show in a drop down menu, use the down arrow on your keyboard to highlight the word you do not want there and hit Shift + Delete. This will remove that term from the form. This trick alone saved me one hell of a headache.

The full list of Firefox shortcuts can be found here.


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