Internet Shortcuts - Save Time While Surfing The Internet

Lola · 07-02-2007, 02:54 PM

Heres a few internet shortcuts you can use while surfing the internet to save you time.

1. Ctrl+D adds the current page to your Favourites/Bookmarks file.

2. Alt+Home takes you directly to your home page. (IE and Firefox)

3. 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)

4. 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).

5. F11 shifts between regular and full-screen views of your browser window (IE and Firefox).

6. F5 or Ctrl+R refreshes the page you're on (IE and Firefox).

7. ESC stops downloading a page (IE and Firefox).

8. 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.

9. Ctrl+W closes a tab in Firefox or the current window in IE.

10. Ctrl++ or Ctrl+- increases or decreases the text size in Firefox.

Gh0stface0` · 11-08-2007, 07:57 PM

thanks for this

tomster123 · 07-06-2008, 10:07 PM

cheers
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shoust · 07-13-2008, 08:36 PM

For 3. Shift+tab goes backwards through the form.

For 4. While still on the find dialog, F3 and shift F3 toggles through tne entries forwards and backwards respectively.

For 8. Ctrl+T applies to IE7 too, and ctrl N should open a new window in both browsers respectively.

For 9, Ctrl+W closes the tab in IE7, and closes the window while on the last tab.

For 10, now in Firefox 3, ctrl++ and ctrl+- zoom in and zoom out of the page respectively, and saves it for the page you are on.

Now for some of my own.

Alt+Left Arrow key goes back on a page(Backspace goes back too), while Alt+Right Arrow key goes forward.
In Opera and Firefox, ctrl+shift+T reopens last closed tab(ctrl Z should do the same in opera too, but only if it was the last action).
Ctrl+E should focus the browser's search field if there is any.

Hope it helps
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Tripleeagle · 07-14-2008, 08:26 PM

Thanks Shoust, our Internet browser expert
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Also, I just noticed that Lola (the first poster) has "pro mo" as a member status (where mine is written "Moderator"...

Death4life · 08-16-2008, 08:06 PM

Most of these are pretty much known to everybody..didnt know about the tab close combo in IE tho

heapsofjunk2k · 04-13-2009, 03:47 PM

greatly appreciated

whiteshaq32 · 04-20-2009, 03:35 AM

Theres one you missed when your typing in the address bar if you hit ctrl + Enter it adds the .com and other stuff automatically.

EXAMPLE: google + CTRL+ENTER =
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Lindsay.Ponzu · 05-23-2009, 01:58 PM

Useful, thanks. =)

soulofthegods88 · 05-24-2009, 01:18 AM

Thanks for the shortcuts they do make it easier.
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