Posts Tagged ‘tabs’

Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts

1. Drag and drop
   • Drag the favi­con of any site to your home icon to set it as the home page.
   • Drag a hyper­link (or image) to the new tab icon to open the link in a new tab.
   • Drag a high­ligh­ted word to the search bar (beside the address bar) will bring you to the Goo­gle search result page for that word. If you drag the high­ligh­ted word to the address bar (and press enter), Fire­fox will per­form a Goo­gle “I’m Fee­ling Lucky” search

There are many things that you can drag and drop in Firefox.

2. Tab navi­ga­tionYou can move bet­ween your tabs without the aid of your mouse:
   • Ctrl+Tab (rotate for­ward among tabs)
   • Ctrl+Shft+Tab (rotate to the pre­vious tab)
   • Ctrl+1–9 (choose a num­ber to jump to a spe­ci­fic tab)
3. Key­board short­cuts
   • Ctrl + F: Brings up the Find in Page search
   • Ctrl + D: Quickly adds a web­page to your book­marks (the new book­mark goes straight into the main book­mark list)
   • Ctrl + K: Moves the cur­sor straight to the search box
   • Ctrl + L: Moves the cur­sor to the address bar
   • Ctrl + W: Clo­ses current tab
   • Ctrl + Enter: Insert www and .com to the address bar. If you enter “about” in the address bar and press Ctrl + Enter, the brow­ser will load the “www.about.com” page
   • Ctrl + +/- : Increase/decrease the font size
   • Spa­ce­bar: Page down
   • Shift + Spa­ce­bar: Page up
   • Alt + Home: Takes current tab to your home page
   • Alt + Enter: Dupli­cate the current tab
   • Alt + N: Find next in page
   • F5: Reloads current page

In addi­tion to the well known Ctrl + T pen new tab, Ctrl + N: open new win­dow etc, the follo­wing short­cuts are very helpful:

4. Mouse short­cuts
   • Ctrl + scroll up/down: Increase/decrease the font size (same as the Ctrl ++/-)
   • Click a hyper­link with the middle but­ton (or scrollwheel) opens the link in a new tab
   • Shift + scroll up/down: Navi­gate bet­ween the next and pre­vious page
5. Book­mark key­word searchIf you set a key­word for your book­mark, you can easily open the book­mark simply by typing the key­word in the address bar.To set key­words for your book­mark, right click the book­mark and select pro­per­ties. You should see a ‘key­word‘ field where you can enter your keyword.

Flip 3D your Firefox Tabs

Loo­king at all the evi­dence pre­sen­ted to me, Fire­fox is making major stri­des in brow­ser pre­fe­rence among web sur­fers.  I know it is my brow­ser of choice.

One of my favo­rite things are the addons.  Some I like, other’s not so much.  I found an addon that has been out for a while by the name of Fox­Tab.  I have got­ten used to the Flip 3d from Vista and abso­lu­tely rely on it.  I like the way you can flip through the screenshots and select the exact win­dow you wan­ted.  Fox­Tab now gives me that feel with Fire­fox tabs.

Like most users, I tend to have 5–10 tabs ope­ned at the mini­mum at any one time.  With a RightC­lick and roll of the wheel, you have a cus­to­mi­za­ble 3d Inter­face.  From chan­ging the color screen, to how many tiles, the layout.  Anything to make it easier for you.

To me, this is one of those Addons you just say, “Thank You Lord”.  With 5 stars and 610 great reviews, it seems like many peo­ple think that.  Fire­fox users, do your­sel­ves a favor and give it a try.