10 quick IE and Firefox keyboard shorcuts

[Captain Crunch]

Tip:

Internet Explorer and Firefox shortcuts on your keyboard

• Ctrl D adds the current page to your Favorites/Bookmarks file.
• Alt Home takes you directly to your home page. (IE and Firefox)
• Use the Tab key to jump your cursor to the next entry in a form or the next section of a Web page. (IE and Firefox)
• Ctrl F launches Find for the page you're on. (IE and Firefox; Firefox's implementation is particularly cool, as it scans the page for the term you want as you type)
• F11 shifts between regular and full-screen views of your browser window. (IE and Firefox)
• F5 or Ctrl R refreshes the page you're on. (IE and Firefox)
• ESC stops downloading a page. (IE and Firefox)
• Ctrl T opens up a new tab and puts your cursor in the URL field, in Firefox. Ctrl L puts your cursor in the URL field and highlights the current text, while Ctrl Tab does the same for IE.
• Ctrl W closes a tab in Firefox or the current window in IE.
• Ctrl or Ctrl - increases or decreases the text size in Firefox.

[Cyberlon]

Here is another shortcut to add to the list...
if your are tired of typing "http://www." in front of your url and the ".com" behind it, simply type something like "hardwarelogic" then hit control+enter
This works in both Firefox and IE, but does not address .org or .net sites.

[wtcnbrwndo4u]

Originally Posted by Cyberlon

Here is another shortcut to add to the list...
if your are tired of typing "http://www." in front of your url and the ".com" behind it, simply type something like "hardwarelogic" then hit control+enter
This works in both Firefox and IE, but does not address .org or .net sites.

Pressing Shift+Enter allows you to address to .net sites... . I don't know how it is for .org sites yet... BTW, the shift+enter thing works for IE and FF.

Also, pressing Tab+Enter refers you to the Mozilla Start page in FF (you need to be clicked into the address bar).

[Lead Head]

Originally Posted by wtcnbrwndo4u

Pressing Shift+Enter allows you to address to .net sites... . I don't know how it is for .org sites yet... BTW, the shift+enter thing works for IE and FF.

Also, pressing Tab+Enter refers you to the Mozilla Start page in FF (you need to be clicked into the address bar).

ctrl+shift+enter addresses .org sites, who would have thought?

[wtcnbrwndo4u]

Should have tried that...

[polobunny]

Some I use often

F6 goes to the address bar when you're surfing.
CTRL+Page Down/Page Up or CTRL+TAB/CTRL+SHIFT+TAB will go to the next/previous tab.
CTRL+0-9 will choose a tab.
CTRL+K will jump to the search box.
Backspace will go back to the page you were, SHIFT+backspace will go foward.

Also in Internet Explorer, ALT+F4 will keep problems away. :)

[Mithosphere]

Originally Posted by polobunny

Some I use often

F6 goes to the address bar when you're surfing.
CTRL+Page Down/Page Up or CTRL+TAB/CTRL+SHIFT+TAB will go to the next/previous tab.
CTRL+0-9 will choose a tab.
CTRL+K will jump to the search box.
Backspace will go back to the page you were, SHIFT+backspace will go foward.

Also in Internet Explorer, ALT+F4 will keep problems away. :)

alt+left arrow and alt+right arrow does the same thing

[polobunny]

Originally Posted by Mithosphere

alt+left arrow and alt+right arrow does the same thing

Thanks, though i'm quite used to backspace. You know, old school. :O