Top Keyboard Shortcuts For Mozilla Firefox Browser

Did you know that you can operate your computer without using a mouse, that too with a much faster rate? Yes, you read it right. You can do that by using the keyboard shortcuts.

If you’re an internet savvy, you would understand the problem of searching most of the options in your browser using a mouse, even for basic stuff like copy and paste. But if you know the shortcuts, your work pace increases with a lot of time being utilized for doing other useful things.

Some of the shortcuts are listed here which are mostly used in Mozilla firefox on windows platform.

Open a New Window

To open a new window, you won’t have to follow that long old procedure. Instead, just hold Ctrl and press N

Close the Window

To close the window of your browser, you can either hold Alt and press F4 or hold Ctrl and Shift and press W.

Open a New Tab

To open a new tab, hold Ctrl and press T.

Close the Current Tab

To close the current tab, either hold Ctrl and press W or hold Ctrl and press F4

Reopen your Closed Tab

To get your closed tab, hold Ctrl and Shift and then press T. It’ll undo the closed tab.

Full-screen View

To enjoy working with your browser in a full-screen mode, press F11.

Private Window

To work in a private window in Firefox, hold Ctrl and Shift and then press P to open a new private Window to cover the tracks of your browsing.

Conclude a Web Address

You don’t have to type ‘www’ every time you enter some URL. Hold Ctrl and press Enter to add the ‘.com’ as suffix and ‘http’ as a prefix for an URL.

Open the Downloads Folder

To open the Downloads folder, hold Ctrl and press J.

Bookmark a Page

To bookmark a page you’re currently working to retrieve the information again, hold Ctrl and press D.

Toggle between Search engines

To Toggle between Search engines, hold Ctrl and press Upper arrow key (↑) or hold Ctrl and press Lower arrow key (↓).

Open a file

To open a new file, hold Ctrl and press O.

Undo any Action

To retract any information lost, hold Ctrl and press Z which will undo the action.

Redo

To redo any action, hold Ctrl and press Y.

Reset Zoom

To reset the page to its default size, hold Ctrl and press O.

Apart from the above mentioned shortcuts, few more shortcuts are enlisted in the table.