47 Keyboard Shortcuts for All Browsers

Every major web browsers having their own, specific, shortcuts and in common they've sharing a number of keyboard shortcuts, too. Knowing the common will serve well as switch between different browsers and computers.

 

The following list of shortcuts will work in Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, Apple, Opera or Safari browsers. This list includes some mouse actions, too.   

...... Tabs .....

Ctrl+1, Ctrl+2, ...   to 8 – Switch to specified tab, counting from the left

Ctrl+9 – Switch to the last tab

Ctrl+Tab – Switch to next tab (the tab on right) 

Ctrl+Page Up also works as above, (but not in Explorer)

Ctrl+Shift+Tab – Switch to previous tab (the tab on left) 

Ctrl+Page Down also works as above, (but not in Explorer)

Ctrl+W, Ctrl+F4 – Close the current tab

Ctrl+Shift+T – Reopen the last closed tab

Ctrl+T – Open a new tab

Ctrl+N – Open a new browser window

Alt+F4 – Close the current window (works in all applications)

..... Mouse Actions for Tabs .....

Middle Click a Tab – Close the tab

Ctrl+Left Click, Middle Click – Open a link in a background tab

Shift+Left Click – Open a link in a new browser window

Ctrl+Shift+Left Click – Open a link in a foreground tab

..... Navigation .....

Alt+Left Arrow, Backspace – Back

Alt+Right Arrow, Shift+Backspace – Forward

F5 – Reload

Ctrl+F5 – Reload and skip the cache, re-downloading the entire website

Escape – Stop

Alt+Home – Open homepage

..... Zooming .....

Ctrl and +, Ctrl+Mouse wheel Up – Zoom in

Ctrl and -, Ctrl+Mouse wheel Down — Zoom out

Ctrl+0 – Default zoom level

F11 – Full-screen mode

..... Scrolling .....

Space, Page Down – Scroll down a frame

Shift+Space, Page Up – Scroll up a frame

Home – Top of page

End – Bottom of page

Middle Click – Scroll with the mouse (Windows only)

..... Address Bar .....

Ctrl+L, Alt+D, F6 – Focus the address bar so you can begin typing

Ctrl+Enter – Prefix www. and append .com to the text in the address bar, and then load the website

For example, type pnonazim.blogspot into the address bar and press Ctrl+Enter to open www.pnonazim.blogspot.com

Alt+Enter – Open the location in the address bar in a new tab

..... Search .....

Ctrl+K, Ctrl+E – Focus the browser’s built-in search box or focus the address bar if the browser doesn’t have a dedicated search box (Ctrl+K doesn’t work in IE, Ctrl+E does)

Alt+Enter – Perform a search from the search box in a new tab

Ctrl+F, F3 – Open the in-page search box to search on the current page

Ctrl+G, F3 – Find the next match of the searched text on the page

Ctrl+Shift+G, Shift+F3 – Find the previous match of the searched text on the page

..... History & Bookmarks .....

Ctrl+H – Open the browsing history

Ctrl+J – Open the download history

Ctrl+D – Bookmark the current website

Ctrl+Shift+Del – Open the Clear Browsing History window

..... Other Functions .....

Ctrl+P – Print the current page

Ctrl+S – Save the current page to your computer

Ctrl+O – Open a file from your computer

Ctrl+U – Open the current page’s source code. (Not in IE)

F12 – Open Developer Tools (Requires Firebug extension for Firefox)

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