The use of shortcuts is very important when browsing. It makes work faster, it saves you from stressing yourself, that is; moving back and forth in pointing and clicking. You might be relaxed while browsing and you're not in the position to use the mouse(click) you can easily use shortcuts here but thing is if you don't know a series of web browsers' keyboard shortcuts then you have to stress yourself moving back and forth making you easily get tired of surfing or computing. Shortcuts are highly recommended by professional internet users. Using web browsers became more easy after i took my time and learned some browsers' keyboard shortcuts.
Below are 38 web browser keyboard shortcuts to save your time and to make surfing more flexible.
- CTRL + T: Opens a new tab.
- CTRL + R: Reloads a current tab.
- CTRL + H: View your browsing history in a sidebar
- CTRL + J: Opens your Firefox download window
- CTRL + TAB: Switches from current tab to the next tab.
- CTRL + SHIFT + TAB: Moves to the previous tab.
- CTRL + Z: Undo last action
- CTRL + SHIFT + Z: Redo last action
- CTRL + ENTER: Auto-complete URL to .com
- SHIFT + ENTER: Auto-complete URL to .net
- CTRL + SHIFT + ENTER: Auto-complete URL to .org
- CTRL + SHIFT + T: Restore the last closed tab
- CTRL + number: Change to the tab with this number
- CTRL + F4: Close the current tab
- CTRL + N: Opens a new Firefox window
- CTRL + S: Download the current webpage page as a web page
- CTRL + L: Highlights the URL in the browser address bar
- CTRL + HYPHEN: Decrease text size on the webpage
- CTRL + PLUS: Increase text size on the webpage
- CTRL + D: Add webpage to bookmarks
- ALT + Home: Loads your start page.
- ALT + F4: Close the browser window
- SHIFT + ENTER: Auto-complete URL to .net
- F5: Reload the current tab
- F6 or Alt+D to Select/Highlight the Address(URL)
- F11: Go full screen / normal screen
- Space: Scroll down the page
- ESC: Stop a loading page
- F3: Find in text
- /: Quick find (almost same as find in text)
- F7: Toggle Caret Browsing (allows you to highlight text with a movable cursor)
- CTRL + Page Down: Move to next tab
- CTRL + Page Up: Move to previous tab
- CTRL + Y: Redo
- CTRL + Left Arrow: Go back a page
- CTRL + Right Arrow: Go foward a page
- Shift + Space: Scroll up a page
- Alt + enter. Instead of ctrl + t to open a new tab and then type the address, just type the address and then press alt + enter it will open the address in a new tab automatically.
Hope this was helpful cheers! and surf safely
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