FireFox Keystroke Shortcuts
Category: Tech...
Posted Sunday, November 21, 2004 at 05:16 PM [GMT-6]

For those of you who have upgraded (and I mean that in every sense of the word) to FireFox, here's an informative article by Derek Featherstone on some keyboard shortcuts you might find useful.

My favorite is Cntl + T which opens a new blank tab and puts the cursor in the address bar. As Derek points out, one press of the tab key and you're in the Google search box, in case you don't know exactly what to do with that open tab. (Am I the only one who thinks there is now one too many references to "tab" in our browser/keyboard lexicon?)

If you want to create your own keystroke shortcuts, you can download and use the Mozilla keyconfig extension. I've not played with it yet, so I have no tips or recommendations.

And, as a bonus, Derek has uncovered a new keystroke shortcut: Cntl + [keypad number] which allows you to jump immediately to the tabbed window corresponding to the number you enter. Thus, if you have 9 tabs open, you can use Cntl + 9 to jump directly to that tab. Very cool. He also provides some instructions for installing a FireFox-specific stylesheet that automatically numbers the tabs so you don't have to do the counting.