Mozilla Firefox 3.6 (codename Namoroka) was released yesterday. Mozilla claims that Firefox 3.6, which was built on Mozilla’s Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering platform, is faster and more responsive than the previous version.
Table 1 listed Firefox keyboard shortcuts that will help you use Firefox expeditiously.
| Keyboard shortcut | Function |
| ctrl + T | Open a new empty tab |
| ctrl + W | Close a tab |
| ctrl + shift + T | Reopen a closed tab |
| ctrl + + | Zoom in |
| ctrl + - | Zoom out |
| ctrl + 0 | Zoom reset |
| ctrl + L | Move cursor to the location bar |
| ctrl + K | Move cursor to the search box |
| space bar | Scroll down the page |
| shift + space bar | Scroll up the page |
| ctrl + R | Refresh the page |
| alt + left arrow | Back |
| alt + right arrow | Forward |
| ctrl + 1 | Switch to the first tab |
| ctrl + 2 | Switch to the second tab |
| ctrl + 3 | Switch to the third tab |
| ctrl + 4 | Switch to the forth tab |
| ctrl + 5 | Switch to the fifth tab |
| ctrl + 6 | Switch to the sixth tab |
| ctrl + 7 | Switch to the seventh tab |
| ctrl + 8 | Switch to the eight tab |
| ctrl + 9 | Switch to the last tab |
As an addition, the mouse middle button is also useful. Click the middle mouse button on a tab will close it. Click the middle mouse button on a link will open the link in a new window.
You can also make the middle mouse button to paste copied text, as in Linux. However, you need to tweak Firefox a bit.
This are the steps to enable the middle mouse button as a paste command.
- Move the cursor to the location bar by using your mouse or ctrl + L shortcut key.
- Type about:config in the location bar and press Enter.
- Click on “I’ll be careful, I promise!”.
- Type middlemouse in the Filter bar. A list of commands will appear.
- Double click command middlemouse.paste. Note that it’s value will now turns to True.
I have listed some useful Firefox keyboard shortcuts that help me browse the Web efficiently. If you know other keyboard shortcuts that I have missed, please leave a comment.
I use CTRL-PageUp and CTRL-PageDown to move between tabs
@Rishad: Thanks. The other way to switch between tabs is by using the ctrl+tab.