Top 10 IE and Firefox shortcuts

December 5th, 2007
  • Ctrl+D adds the current page to your Favorites/Bookmarks file.
  • Alt+Home takes you directly to your home page. (IE and Firefox)
  • Use the Tab key to jump your cursor to the next entry in a form or the next section of a Web page. (IE and Firefox)
  • Ctrl+F launches Find for the page you’re on. (IE and Firefox; Firefox’s implementation is particularly cool, as it scans the page for the term you want as you type)
  • F11 shifts between regular and full-screen views of your browser window. (IE and Firefox)
  • F5 or Ctrl+R refreshes the page you’re on. (IE and Firefox)
  • ESC stops downloading a page. (IE and Firefox)
  • Ctrl+T opens up a new tab and puts your cursor in the URL field, in Firefox. Ctrl+L puts your cursor in the URL field and highlights the current text, while Ctrl+Tab does the same for IE.
  • Ctrl+W closes a tab in Firefox or the current window in IE.
  • Ctrl++ or Ctrl+- increases or decreases the text size in Firefox.