Started using Firefox, found some keyboard shortcuts!

Friday, April 9, 2004

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I started using Firefox, and I think I'm going to like it!

The Tab browsing is what I've seen people rave about, so I thought I'd try it out. That and while I uninstalled all sorts of software at work the other day I seem to have semi-hosed my IE6 on my development machine. So Firefox will be getting a lot of use now.

First problem, tabs are cool, but how do I switch between them without the mouse? I am a pretty big proponent us keyboard shortcuts, I use them all the time. I had to do some digging to find them though. To switch between tabs in Firefox use “Control-Tab” and “Shift-Control-Tab” to go back to the previous tab!

Here are some more keyboard shortcuts for Firefox!

3 Comments

be sure to install the Tabbed browser extensions and the flash blocker plugin. The flash blocker plugin creates a button at teh place of a flash object in a page. Click on it to watch the flash movie, but if you don't click on it, you don't see the flash movie. Which is great, because you won't see any flash adds :)

Frans Bouma - Friday, April 9, 2004 4:42:00 PM

Thanks for the tip Frans. I'll definetly install both of those.

christoc - Saturday, April 10, 2004 10:03:00 AM

Wow! I didn't know about the find as you type * features. Those are killer.

Chris Martin - Saturday, April 10, 2004 12:51:00 PM

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