Wednesday, 13 August 2014

Mozilla Firefox - Popular keyboard shortcuts (hot keys).


In all browsers there are features thats makes it easy  for us the users to navigate around the browser while surfing the internet and browsing a website. Well Mozilla Firefox  like most modern browsers have the ability to carry out such function because it has same features as well. Below are a number of listed keyboard shortcuts that will be of help to us, they are;

Hold down the CONTROL (CONTROL) key and press the assigned key.

CONTROL + A     This function selects all the text on a webpage
CONTROL + B     This function Open the Bookmarks sidebar
CONTROL + C     This function Copy the selected text to the Windows clipboard
CONTROL + D     This function Bookmark the current webpage
CONTROL + F     This function Find text within the current webpage
CONTROL + G     This function Find more text within the same webpage
CONTROL + H     This function Opens the webpage History sidebar
CONTROL + I     This function Open the Bookmarks sidebar
CONTROL + J     This function Opens the Download Dialogue Box
CONTROL + K     Places the cursor in the Web Search box ready to type your search
CONTROL + L     Places the cursor into the URL box ready to type a website address
CONTROL + M    This function Opens your mail program (if you have one) already signed in
CONTROL + N     This function Opens a new Firefox window
CONTROL + O     It helps in Opening a local file
CONTROL + P     This function Is used to Print the current webpage
CONTROL + R     Reloads the current webpage
CONTROL + S     Save the current webpage on your PC
CONTROL + T     This helps to Open a new Firefox Tab in the browser
CONTROL + U     View the page source of the current webpage
CONTROL + V     Paste the contents of the Windows clipboard
CONTROL + W     Closes the current Firefox Tab or Window (if more than one tab is open)
CONTROL + X     This function helps to Cut the selected text
CONTROL + Z     This function helps Undo the previous action

The below listed shortcuts do not require the user to hold multiple keys before they take action, these keys as you may know have their own function depending on the program you are using at that point in time, so dont assume they will work for all the programs as well...

F1         this Opens Firefox help
F3         Find more text within the same webpage
F5         this Reloads the current webpage
F6         Toggles the cursor between the address/URL input box and the current webpage
F7         Toggles Caret Browsing on and off. Used to be able to select text on a webpage with the keyboard
F11         want to Switch to Full Screen mode? Try this

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