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Incredible Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts You May Not Know About

jeetblog.com — Excellent shortcuts! I knew only 3 of them. All of the shortcuts are quite useful.

Who dugg this? Made popular Apr 12, 2008

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  • MattJF317, on 04/12/2008, -11/+350You only knew 3? Your digg membership should be revoked.
  • Jereso, on 04/12/2008, -3/+208People didn't know about middle-click?!
  • 1ofMany, on 04/12/2008, -1/+114Hell, I don't think I could use Digg if I couldn't middle click all the articles.
  • inactive, on 04/12/2008, -1/+90I'm not sure if "Incredible" was the most appropriate adjective to describe title the article... Incredible goes with "Incredible Hulk" rather well but not "Incredible Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts You May Not Know About".
  • harusp3x, on 04/12/2008, -1/+73PageUp and PageDown have done exactly what they are named since the keys were conceived. Whoever didn't know what those keys did should be slapped with the wrong end of a trout.
  • inactive, on 04/12/2008, -11/+75This article gets a Ctrl-D from me.
  • picpak, on 04/12/2008, -0/+62Way for it to not mention middle-clicking a tab to close it.
  • madeingermany, on 04/12/2008, -2/+62I give it a Ctrl +W at most.
  • Slagtits, on 04/12/2008, -0/+48Good for removing your porn history...........................or so I'm told.
  • HHP2K, on 04/12/2008, -3/+47I had no idea about the delete key removing search history.. very useful.
  • psevium, on 04/12/2008, -0/+38and Ctrl + L
  • IvanB, on 04/12/2008, -1/+382: Alt + D

    F6 does the job as well. :)
  • GOJOE, on 04/12/2008, -3/+39When i learned about ctrl+shift+t i was shocked to find that i had could of possible lived without it.Nothing new here for me, but a well written article
  • HaloZero, on 04/12/2008, -6/+36I personally prefer Ctrl+L, rather than Alt+D. I already knew most of these shortcuts, unfortunately very uninformative.
  • xlneoMAXlx, on 04/12/2008, -5/+32http://www.duggmirror.com
    PLS
  • pilot3033, on 04/12/2008, -1/+27Ctrl+Alt+Chicken
  • V01dV01cg, on 04/12/2008, -2/+25A keyboard shortcut can be "incredible" ?
  • Schrodinger2, on 04/12/2008, -0/+23No dude this article is INCREDIBLE. The keyboard shortcuts are AMAZING. I dont know how I lived without them. My dull surfing days are over thanks to this AWESOME article. BANANAS
  • Soave, on 04/12/2008, -0/+23Also, Control-K goes to the search field next to the address bar.
  • tj111, on 04/12/2008, -1/+22No more searches for apples showing up as "asian ass porn".
  • Lutremi, on 04/12/2008, -7/+28All this freakin time I've been using right click -> open in new tab.
  • UtopiaInTheSky, on 04/12/2008, -0/+20You can also middle-mouse click an existing tab, and the tab will close.
  • TheCoreh, on 04/12/2008, -3/+23Ctrl+Shift+Del
  • duckyinc, on 04/12/2008, -3/+22because it's on the front page and you are mindless
  • Tiak, on 04/12/2008, -3/+21As this is a crappy list of only a handful of features... I figure I might as well post the other common ones here:
    ctrl+W - one of the most used, closes tabs.
    ctrl+=/ctrl+- - Rarely useful, but occasionally so, zoom in/out
    F5 - Reload.
    F6 - Select address bar
    Ctrl+Click - open in new tabs, for those without fancy mice (laptop users).
    Ctrl+Shift+Tab - go back a tab... No clue why they didn't mention it in the ctrl+tab entry.
    Ctrl+P - print
    Ctrl+Shift+X - Toggle right alignment of text... I have no clue why this would be useful...
    Ctrl+S - save page
  • cyclopropene, on 04/12/2008, -0/+17Who would have thought that PageUp scrolls up the page?
  • calenlas, on 04/12/2008, -0/+16Indeed, Ctrl+L seems to be the standard across all the browsers. Also, it makes a lot more sense when teamed with Ctrl+K to jump to the search field.
  • NickMilne, on 04/12/2008, -0/+16In addition to informing me about some useful keyboard shortcuts, this article is also indirectly responsible for my having learned that there is, in fact, a wrong end to a trout. Digg^2
  • 4orced4door, on 04/12/2008, -2/+16Maybe if your computer is 10 years old.
  • travis1982, on 04/12/2008, -19/+33cause he sounds like a gay
  • inactive, on 04/12/2008, -6/+20Ctrl+Alt+Del x2 proves most useful.
  • Soave, on 04/12/2008, -0/+13Does the URL bar use Google's "I'm feeling lucky" for things like that?
  • globaldigger, on 04/12/2008, -0/+12http://duggmirror.com/design/Incredible_Firefox_Ke ...
  • TheCoreh, on 04/12/2008, -1/+13Here it works normally.
  • houndeyex, on 04/12/2008, -1/+12Bye bye porno cache.
  • john2kx, on 04/12/2008, -1/+12damn you... >_>
  • bicyclethief, on 04/12/2008, -0/+10Ctrl+K to go to the Web Search
  • jcaino, on 04/12/2008, -1/+11BACON.
  • fxu1989, on 04/12/2008, -2/+12What I do to open a new tab.

    I click on the "Homepage" button with the mouse-wheel.

    My Homepage is google, so it doesn't take more than 1 second of loading :P ..

    To open windows on tabs, click the link with the mouse-wheel; to close the tab, click the tab with the mouse-wheel.
  • bitterscream, on 04/12/2008, -0/+9Didn't know either, however I think the Alt+D combination would work better for myself as my hand is usually around that position. Not used to fetching F? keys.
  • srt4b, on 04/12/2008, -1/+10my favorite: left click=Error establishing a database connection
  • themastersb, on 04/12/2008, -0/+9I think I will find the ctrl+shift+T most useful. Now I just have to remember to use it.
  • xenoc1de, on 04/12/2008, -5/+14What ever happened to windows+u+u?
  • inactive, on 04/12/2008, -0/+9Is there any way to change Firefox from auto adding .org with .co.uk or something?
  • madcreator, on 04/12/2008, -0/+9I just learned a really useful one earlier today. Not exactly a 'keyboard' shortcut though. If there's a website address typed on the page but not linked to, you can highlight the address and then drag it onto the current page's tab or into the empty space to the right of the current tabs to open it in a new tab. In fact, this will even work if you highlight and drag just the name of the website onto the tab bar, for instance highlighting and dragging google will take you to their site (Only works with .com I believe).

    That reminds me that you can also open a new tab by double clicking in an empty space on the tab bar.
  • oojamaflip2006, on 04/12/2008, -0/+8The really useful thing about delete removing individual urls from the search history is you can make it look like you have nothing to hide by keeping your non porn urls in the history list it looks like you only go to those sites.

    Re-reading that / makes me sound like i have lots of experience of this O.o
  • Greg2b, on 04/12/2008, -0/+8Must be using '98...
  • MOates, on 04/12/2008, -0/+8I have to say I love the middle mouse button. Saves me a lot of time on digg opening articles in new tabs.
  • brianegge, on 04/12/2008, -1/+9Or more simply /
  • davidrools, on 04/12/2008, -1/+9Mouse gestures rock if you're into firefox efficiency without needing the keyboard. For example, drag a link up w/ the right mouse button to open it in a new tab, drag up-right or up-left to flip between tabs, etc. Once you learn em you can't live without em.
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/39
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