Mozilla Firefox Shortctus (72 Shortcuts)

Navigating between Websites with Firefox
1	alt+home	Go to homepage (typically people’s favorite search engine)
2	alt+arrow left or back	One page backwards
3	alt+arrow right	One page forward
4	alt+d or ctrl+l	Jump to address bar and selects all text in it
5	ctrl+enter	Complete .com address in the address bar. Type in for example “firefox” and press ctrl+enter
6	shift+enter	Complete .net address. Type in for example “firefox” and press shift+enter
7	ctrl+shift+enter	Complete .org address. Type in for example “firefox” and press ctrl+shift+enter
8	ctrl+b or ctrl+i	Show bookmarks. After that you can press tab and use the arrow keys to navigate between bookmarked pages. arrow left and arrow right will expand/shrink bookmark folders marked with the little ‘+’ or ‘-’ signs. Pressing this keyboard shortcut a second time closes the Bookmark Sidebar
9	ctrl+d	Add bookmark
10	ctrl+shift+d	Bookmark all tabs
11	alt+b+a-z	Jumps to any bookmarked website in your main bookmark folder which begins with the letter you specify. Example: I have one bookmark which I named “LEO” (which is my favorite German-English Online Dictionary dict.leo.org). I press alt+b+l and I am on the LEO website within a second. If you have more than one bookmark with the same letter, it jumps to the first entry and you have to press enter to after alt+b+letter to get to the website. It will take you a minute to setup and organize your bookmarks but save you hours in the long run.
12	ctrl+h	Show history. Then you can press tab twice and use the ARROW KEYS to navigate between visited sites. Pressing ctrl+H again closes the History Sidebar
Working with the Firefox Browser Tabs
13	ctrl+t	Open new tab in the same Window
14	ctrl+tab or ctrl+page down	Jump to next tab
15	ctrl+shift+tab or ctrl+page down	Jump to previous tab
16	ctrl+1 - ctrl+9	Jump to tab 1 - 9
17	ctrl+w or ctrl+q	Close Browser Tab
Navigating within websites with Mozilla Firefox
18	arrow down	Down one line. The ideal way to scroll through websites
19	arrow up	Up one line. The ideal way to scroll through websites
20	tab	Jump to next link when cursor is positioned in browser window. Other than that, jumps between address-bar and browser-tabs
21	shift+tab	Jump to previous link when cursor is positioned in browser window. Other than that, jumps between address-bar and browser-tabs
22	enter	Open selected link
23	shift+enter	Open a selected link in new window
24	enter	Open selected link
25	shift+enter	Open a selected link in new window
26	alt+enter	Download a selected link (replaces right mouse-button, “save as” and “return”
27	ctrl+enter	Open a selected link in a (new background) tab
28	ctrl+-	Decrease text size
29	ctrl++	Increase text size
30	ctrl+0	Default text size
31	f5 or ctrl+r	Reload Page
32	ctrl+f5	Reload Page with Cache override
33	escape	Stop loading page. Can also be sued to close search window if it is open
34	f6	Go to next frame (or switches between address bar and browser window if page has no frames)
35	shift+f6	Go to previous frame
36	F7	Turn caret mode on/off (navigation with keyboard)
37	shift+f10	Open Context Menu. If you are for example on a link within a website, you could press shift+F10C to copy link location and then
Working with Forms in Mozilla Firefox
38	tab	Jumps to next Form Element
39	shift+tab	Jumps to previous Form Element. If an entry in the previous field is already made, the complete entry is marked. If you want to enter something new, simply start to type and the new entry replaces the old form entry. If you want to keep the old entry, Simply press the home or END keyboard shortcut to go to the beginning end of the entry.
40	space	Activates and/or deactivates Radio Buttons and Check boxes
41	alt+arrow down	Select Select from a drop down menu. Then use arrow up and arrow down plus return to make your choice
42	ctrl+x	Cut (when working in forms)
43	ctrl+v	Paste selected text when working with forms
Find text and links in websites
44	ctrl+f or ‘	Open search window and find key phrase in page (as you type)
45	/	Open search window and find link in page (as you type)
46	f3 or ctrl+g	Find next
47	escape	Close search window
48	shift+f3	Find previous
Working with the Firefox Browser Window
49	ctrl+n or alt+f+n	Opens new Browser Window
50	ctrl+shift+w or alt+f4	Close browser window
51	alt+space	Opens the Title Bar Menu (applicable all Windows Application)
52	alt+space+enter	Restores Firefox Window to smaller size if window is spreading on full screen (replaces the “restore button” on top right corner of title bar)
53	alt+space+x	Restores Firefox Window to maximum size if window is not maximized (replaces the “maximize button” on top right corner of title bar)
54	alt+space+n	Minimizes Firefox Window to (replaces the “minimize button” on top right corner of title bar)
Accessing and working with the Firefox Menu Bar
55	alt or f10	Jumps to the menu bar. From here you can use arrow left, arrow right, arrow up and arrow downenter to navigate and activate between the menu items on top of the browser window. Usually the same in all Windows Application. plus
56	alt+f	Opens File Menu
57	alt+e	Opens Edit Menu
58	alt+v	Opens View Menu
59	alt+g	Opens Go Menu
Other Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts
60	ctrl+a	Select all. Useful, if you want to for example copy text out of websites. I use it often to copy articles in a plain text editor, remove the advertising and print it out.
61	ctrl+c	Copy selected text
62	ctrl+p	Print
63	alt+f+v	Print Preview - File - Print Preview
64	ctrl+o	Open file
65	ctrl+u	Show page source
66	ctrl+s	Save page as
67	f1	Firefox Help
68	f11	Full page view
69	ctrl+j	Show Download Window. Pressing ctrl+J again (or alt+F4 closes the window again
70	ctrl+e	Jump to search bar (usually located in top right corner)
71	ctrl+k	Jump to search bar (usually located in top right corner)
72	ctrl+arrow up	Toggle Search Engines when in search field (after ctrl+E got you there)

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