Mozilla Firefox - common keyboard shortcut keys

Firefox have all the bells & whistles to make our internet life happy. Tabs, plugins, portability and keyboard shortcuts. Firefox keyboard shortcuts make browsing addictive, especially to system administrator, which our hands are on the keyboard most of the time. We could use mouse to browse it but wouldn't you think by keeping your hands on the keyboard would increase productivity? :)

Below are the list of keyboard shortcuts plus a few combination of mouse clicks which commonly used in Firefox. There are of cause other shortcuts available but this post only attempt to introduce you with the efficiency of using keyboard shortcuts (almost mouse-less) rather then trying to exhaust your brain memory in crunching the full list of keyboard shortcuts. You can print the below list of Firefox keyboard shortcut keys out and act as a Cheat Sheet. It can be useful in getting familiar initially using the keyboard shortcut keys. Here are the list :

Mozilla Firefox keyboard shortcut key quick tips

Tabs

Create new Tab

Ctrl + t

Close the current Tab

Ctrl + w

Go to next Tab

Ctrl + Tab

Go to previous Tab

Ctrl + Shift + Tab

Open link/URL in a new Tab and focus on current Tab

Ctrl + <Click Link>

Open link/URL in a new Tab and focus on the new Tab

Ctrl + Shift + <Click Link>

Page Navigation

Go to the top of the page

Home (the home key)

Go to the bottom of the page

End (the end key)

Scroll line by line using mouse scroll ball

Alt + <Mouse Scroll>

Go back to previous page

Alt + <Left Arrow>

Go to next page

Alt + <Right Arrow>

Find words appear in the current frame and page

Ctrl + f

Find again the search term or keywords

Ctrl + g (forward search)

F3 (forward search)

Shift + F3 (backward search)

URLs

Focus cursor on URL address bar

Ctrl + l

Focus cursor on Google search bar (on the top right hand corner, by default)

Ctrl + j

History of visited sites and page

Ctrl + h

Bookmark the current tab or page

Ctrl + d

Search Bar

Focus cursor on Search bar (method 1)

Ctrl + k then Alt up/down arrow key (to choose search engine)

Focus cursor on Search bar (method 2)

Ctrl + k + up/down arrow key (to choose search engine)

Searching using the URL address bar

1. Create a bookmark with the following field filled :
   
   • Name: [g] Google Search
   • Location: http://www.google.com/search?q=%s
   • Keyword: g
2. How to use :
   
   • Go to the URL Address Bar
   • type "g search_keyword"
3. Additional search configs for URL Address Bar searching :
   

   Keyword	Location	Description
   g	http://www.google.com/search?q=%s	Google Web
   gsh	http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%s	Google Scholar
   gimg	http://images.google.com/images?safe=off&q=%s	Google Images
   gg	http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%s	Google Groups
   dict	http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=%s	Dictionary
   wiki	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s	Wikipedia
   cpan	http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=all&query=%s	CPAN
   fm	http://freshmeat.net/search/?mode=all&q=%s	Freshmeat

Misc.

View the source code of current page or Tab

Ctrl + u

Clear private data

(Browsing history, download history, saved form and search history, cache, cookies, offline website data, saved passwords and authenticated session)

Ctrl + Shift + Del

Adios !!!