Mouse and Keyboard tips for Firefox

Posted on April 22nd, 2009 by Jason

Mouse gestures

1. Control Firefox with your mouse
A massive time saver, Mouse Gestures enables you to navigate with a quick flick of the mouse while holding the right mouse button down.

2. Go one page forward in the browsing history
Hold the right mouse button down and move mouse to the right

3. Go back a page in the browsing history
Hold the right mouse button down and flick mouse to left

4. Close the active tab
Hold the right mouse button down and move the mouse down and to the right in an L motion

5. Open the link crossed by the gesture in a new browser window
Hold the right mouse button down and flick the mouse downwards

6. Open links in tabs
Making any gesture ending with a straight Right-Up-Left movement opens all crossed links in tabs.

Keyboard shortcuts

1. Autocomplete .com URL
Ctrl+Enter

2. Autocomplete .net URL
Shift+EnterReturn

3. Autocomplete .org URL
Ctrl+Shift+Enter

4. Open Active Downloads
Ctrl+J

5. Select Location Bar
Alt+D/ F6 /Ctrl+L

6. Bookmark All Tabs
Ctrl+Shift+D

7. Bookmark This Page
Ctrl+D

8. Bookmarks
Ctrl+B

9. Caret Browsing
F7

10. History
Ctrl+H

11. Clear Private Data
Ctrl+Shift+Del

12. Rotate forward among tabs
Ctrl+Tab

13. Rotate to the previous tab
Ctrl+Shft+Tab

14. Choose a number to jump to a specific tab
Ctrl+1-9

Mouse shortcuts

15. Open link in Background Tab
Ctrl+Left-click Middle-click

16. Open link in Foreground Tab
Ctrl+Shift+Left-click/ Shift+Middle-click

17. Open in New Window
Shift+Left-click

18. Copy Tab or Bookmark
Ctrl+DragN/A

19. Paste URL and Go
Middle-click on Tab

20. Reload and overwrite cache
Shift+Reload button

21. Scroll line by line
Ctrl+ScrollAltOpt+Scroll

22. New tab
Double-Click on Tab Bar

23. Close Tab
Middle-click on Tab

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