Complete list of Keyboard Shortcuts for Firefox and Internet Explorer
Keyboard shortcuts are always handy and below is a list of keyboard shortcuts that can be used in Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer for Windows.
Shortcuts for Firefox;
- CTRL+D: Add a bookmark.
- BACKSPACE: Move back.
- CTRL+B: Open Bookmarks in browser sidebar.
- CTRL+I: Open Bookmarks in browser sidebar.
- F7: Toggles Caret Browsing on/off.
- CTRL+W: Close current tab.
- CTRL+F4: Close current tab.
- ALT+F4: Close current window.
- CTRL+C: Copy.
- CTRL+X Cut.
- CTRL+MINUS: Decrease text size within web page.
- SHIFT+DEL: Delete an individual form.
- CTRL+J: Launch Download Manager.
- CTRL+G: Find again.
- SHIFT+F3: Find previous.
- F11: Put the current browser window in full screen mode.
- F1: Launch Firefox Help.
- CTRL+H: Display your browsing history.
- ALT+HOME: Load your home page.
- CTRL+PLUS: Increase text size within web page.
- F6: Move to next frame.
- SHIFT+F6: Move to previous frame.
- CTRL+T: Create a new tab.
- CTRL+TAB: Make the next tab active.
- CTRL+N: Open a new browser window.
- CTRL+O: Launch the Open File dialog.
- CTRL+ENTER: Open a link in a new tab.
- CTRL+U: Display the source of the current page.
- CTRL+V: Paste.
- CTRL+PAGE UP: Make the previous tab active.
- CTRL+P: Print.
- F5: Refresh the current page.
- CTRL+F5: Refresh the current page, overriding your cache.
- CTRL+S: Open Save Page As
- ALT+ENTER: Open Save Link Target As… dialog.
- CTRL+A: Select all.
- CTRL+L: Select location bar.
- CTRL+DOWN ARROW: Select next respective search engine in search bar.
- CTRL+UP ARROW: Select previous respective search engine in search bar.
- CTRL+Z: Undo.
Shortcuts for IE;
- F11: Toggle Full Screen Mode on and off.
- TAB: Move forward through items on a web page, the Search Box, or the Address box.
- CTRL+F: Find a word or set of words on a page.
- CTRL+N: Open the current page in a new window.
- CTRL+P: Print the current page.
- CTRL+A: Select all items on the current page.
- CTRL+PLUS: Zoom in.
- CTRL+MINUS: Zoom out.
- CTRL+0 (Zero): Zoom to 100%.
- ALT+HOME: Go to home page.
- ALT+LEFT: Go backward.
- ALT+RIGHT: Go forward.
- F5: Refresh current page.
- CTRL+F5: Refresh both the current page and the cache.
- ESC: Stop downloading current page.
- CTRL+I: Open Favorites.
- CTRL+SHIFT+I: Open Favorites in pinned mode.
- CTRL+B: Organize Favorites.
- CTRL+D: Add current page to Favorites.
- CTRL+J: Open Feeds.
- CTRL+SHIFT+J: Open Feeds in pinned mode.
- CTRL+H: Open History.
- CTRL+SHIFT+H: Open History in pinned mode.
- CTRL+Q: Open Quick Tab view.
- CTRL+T: Open new tab.
- CTRL+SHIFT+Q: View list of open tabs.
- CTRL+TAB: Switch to next open tab.
- CTRL+SHIFT+TAB: Switch to previous open tab.
- ALT+D: Select the Address Bar.
- CTRL+ENTER: Add “http://www.” to the beginning and “.com” to the end of text in the Address Bar.
- ALT+ENTER: Open the website address that is typed in the Address Bar in a new tab.
- F4: View a list of previously typed addresses.
- CTRL+E: Select the Instant Search Box.
- CTRL+DOWN ARROW: View list of available search providers.
- ALT+ENTER: Open search results in a new tab.
If you have any more shortcuts for Firefox and IE, please share them in comments.
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Jul 8th, 2007 at 1:03 am
Shorcuts make my life easier, thanks for posting this. I will be printing this list out!
Jul 8th, 2007 at 5:11 am
Lots of shortcuts! Thanks for sharing!
Where did you get this list? 
Jul 8th, 2007 at 5:57 am
This is awesome I use cad and I know all the short cuts but I never really new all of these thanks…
Jul 8th, 2007 at 10:21 am
wow ! It’s a big list.. Din’t know many of them.. But you forgot the common address bar shortcuts. Ctrl + Enter –> for .com sites
Shift + enter –> for .net sites
just type the name in addr bar and these shortcuts will finn in the other details for you
Jul 8th, 2007 at 10:44 am
Its impossible to know all of them but I know some of the more common ones.
Most of these shortcuts are pretty much standards and are same in all browsers (Opera’s Keyboard Shortcuts).
The shortcuts I use most commonly are :
Ctrl+T : Open in new tab
Ctrl+Enter : Complete url
Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V : Select all and copy-paste
. : Find in Page
V : Read aloud select text
Space : One Screen Down
Aside from keyboard shortcuts I also use mouse gestures quite a lot. It definitely makes life easier.
Jul 8th, 2007 at 10:46 am
wow thats a huge list , i will try to remember a few .
Jul 8th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
Nice! Stumbled!
You must be a shortcut freak!
Jul 8th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
Hey! Here is a list of keyboard shortcuts to… just everything
Jul 8th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
Thanks Nirman This is really helpfull.
Jul 8th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
Great post Nirmal. How do you remember them? Did you by heart it the yesterday whole night?
This is surely a big list.
Jul 8th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
Nice list. My all time favourite on Firefox is CTRL + TAB to switch between tabs.
Jul 8th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
@Grace,
I did a bit of Googling to find out all the shortcuts.
@Deepak,
I have added CTRL + Enter in the list.
@Pallab,
Thanks for the Opera link. It will be useful.
@Madhur,
Its difficult to remember all.
@Ken Xu,
Thanks for the stumble.
@Ram,
I dont remember all. I only remember the ones frequently used by me.
@Shankar,
Mine is CTRL +T.
Jul 9th, 2007 at 7:51 am
In Firefox, I like CTRL+Shift+S when I want to turn off all the styles that have been applied to a page.
Jul 9th, 2007 at 8:45 am
aha! shortcuts! I love them a lot and make every possible use of them. the reason for that is, I want to get away with mouse as much as I can
Jul 9th, 2007 at 10:31 am
Wow that is a big list! I hope I can remember most of them. Nice job
Jul 9th, 2007 at 10:40 am
Nice..but sometimes we still need to use the mouse.. that is why the mouse is still alive till now
Jul 9th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
@Brown Baron,
Thanks for the comments. Hope you liked it.
@Kuanhoong,
You are right, its not possible to remove mouse completely.
Jul 9th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
Wow too much Shortcuts … seems your this post will give an end to mouse
Jul 9th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
Hey i think Tyroo ads on your blog is making your site slow and its showing only a single ad there!
Jul 9th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
@Rishi,
Tyroo is showing only single ads sometimes. This is because they have only a few advertisers.
Jul 10th, 2007 at 1:38 am
Nirmal: Wow. Must’ve taken a while.
Jul 11th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
guys, here is the list of keyboard shortcuts for 150+ most popular apps - Microsoft, Apple, Google, browsers, players, graphics tools, games… almost everything!
Jul 16th, 2007 at 2:34 am
I really had no idea there were soooo many! I recently switched over to Firefox from IE and am liking it so far. I was let down to discover that it doesn’t remember EVERY login and password (for Blogger for example). But I’ll figure it all out, thanks for the great info!!!
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