Firefox is the second most popular web browser in the world and it continues to gain popularity and market share. With this rapid growth many users, especially new users, are not aware of the wide range of useful Firefox keyboard shortcuts available. These small combinations of keystrokes when used at the right time can be real productivity boosters. Here are 30 Firefox keyboard shortcuts to help simplify and speed up your daily browsing. Even Firefox veterans may find these useful.

Many of the shortcuts will be a combination of keystrokes. For example “Ctrl + C” means that you should hold down the Ctrl (control) key and press the letter “C”. Use the lowercase letters not uppercase, if using the shift key is need it will be indicated as “Shift”.

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Page Navigation Shortcuts

These shortcuts allow you to navigate quickly around a web page, most with only a single keystroke.

Spacebar — Page down one full screen at a time

— Page down one full screen at a time Shift – Spacebar — Page up one full screen at a time

— Page up one full screen at a time Down Arrow – Scroll down

– Scroll down Page Down — Page down one full screen at a time

— Page down one full screen at a time Up Arrow — Scroll Up

— Scroll Up Page Up — Page up one full screen at a time

— Page up one full screen at a time End — Go to the Bottom (end) of the page

— Go to the Bottom (end) of the page Home — Go to the Top of page

Pages, Tabs and Bookmarks

These useful shortcuts help you quickly perform different common tasks within Firefox, manage Tabs and access bookmarks.

F5 — Reload the current page

— Reload the current page Alt + Home — Go to home page

— Go to home page Ctrl + L — Go to the Address bar

— Go to the Address bar Ctrl + K — Go to the search box

— Go to the search box Ctrl + = — Increase the text size, zoom in

— Increase the text size, zoom in Ctrl + – — Decrease the text size, zoom out

— Decrease the text size, zoom out Ctrl + P — Print the current page

— Print the current page Ctrl + H — Opens the Browsing History in a column on the left

— Opens the Browsing History in a column on the left Ctrl + T — Open a new tab

— Open a new tab Ctrl + W — Close current tab

— Close current tab Ctrl + Tab — rotate forward to the next tab

— rotate forward to the next tab Ctrl + Shft + Tab — rotate back to the previous tab

— rotate back to the previous tab Ctrl + 1-9 — Choose a number to jump to that specific tab

— Choose a number to jump to that specific tab Ctrl + B — Open Bookmarks Column on Left

— Open Bookmarks Column on Left Ctrl + I — Close Bookmarks Column

— Close Bookmarks Column Ctrl + D – Create a bookmark for the current page

Mouse Shortcuts

Here are six mouse-related shortcuts for when you already have your hand on the mouse. These shortcuts include the scroll wheel and utilize the clicking function (middle click) of the scroll wheel.

Shift – scroll down – Go to the previous page

– Go to the previous page Shift – scroll up – Go to the next page

– Go to the next page Ctrl – scroll up — Decrease the text size, zoom out

— Decrease the text size, zoom out Ctrl – scroll down — Increase text size, zoom in

— Increase text size, zoom in Middle click on link — Open the link in a new tab

— Open the link in a new tab Middle click on a tab — Close the tab

Keystroke shortcuts have been around for many years and Firefox takes useful browser shortcuts to a new level. It may take a little adjusting to get used to using shortcuts but once you do they’ll become second nature for speeding up your web browsing. Give some of these FireFox shortcuts a try and you’ll be amazed at how much they can speed up your browsing and enhance your productivity.