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Mouse not working? Learn the FIREFOX keyboard shortcuts


¿ Ever been working online using Firefox and your mouse stops working? Never fear, you can do everything from your keyboard! This page will teach you 10 essential Firefox keyboard shortcuts...

  • Autocomplete .COM, .NET and .ORG addesses:
Want to navigate to a website fast, simply type in just the name and complete it with:

CTRL+Enter for .COM
SHIFT+Enter for .NET
and CTRL+SHIFT+Enter for .ORG.
Using the combinations CTRL+L and ALT+D automatically takes you to the Location Bar to to immediately begin entering a new address
  • Open and close Tabs with :
CTRL+T opens a new Tab
CTRL+SHIFT+T reopens the last Tab closed.
Using ALT+Enter opens a selected or written address in a new Tab, whilst maintain the current page.

You can also use the mouse Scroll button ratón (Scroll) to open links in a new Tab.
  • Clear the History and Autocomplete.
Using the Delete key (DEL) you can easily clear items from the History and Firefox Autocomplete feature by simply selecting them and hitting Delete. To move quickly to the Web Seach bar (in the top right corner) just type CTRL+K.
  • Moving between Tabs
The command CTRL+TAB allows you to cycle through all open Tabs in the browser window. If you want to move to a specific Tab then type CTRL together with a number (1,2,3…9) and you can navigate directly to one of the first 9 open Tabs without havin gto flick through every Tab.

  • Scroll up and down the page
SPACE and SHIFT+SPACE moves the Scroll Bar down and up respectively

More about: ngo , internet , firefox , shortcuts , keyboard
19/06/2008
Giacomo Calvo
Translation by Henry Barfoot-Saunt
on 24/06/2008
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