Favorite Firefox tricks ?

I recently had a lot of visitors stumbling on one of my posts “The most underrated Firefox feature“.

A lot of comments suggested some very interesting shortcuts for a more efficient use of Firefox.

Some of them were new to me so I put together a list of the 12 most useful Firefox tricks that my visitors mentionned.

If you have others to add to the list, feel free to comment.

1. Click on mouse wheel to close a tab (that was mine)…

2. CTRL + W to close the tab

3. CTRL + T to open a new tab

4. Double click on the tab bar to create a new empty tab

5. Shift+CTRL+T reopens the last tab you closed, if you accidentally closed more than you meant to.

6. Clicking on links with the scroll button opens the link in a new tab.

7. Middle click on anything… ANYTHING to open a new tab. It doesn’t matter what it is, links, bookmarks, back/forward buttons, and even home.

8. On a mouse with no scroll wheel, clicking both mouse buttons at once produces the same effect.

9 . CTRL-L to select the url bar, CTRL-K for the search bar.

10. SHIFT + Click to open a link in a new window.

11. Auto complete of addresses : you can type only “365questions” into the location bar, and hit CTRL + ENTER and it’ll add the “http://www.” before and “.com” after.

12. Get tabmixplus. it lets you customize everything about tabbed browsing.

All the shortcuts for Firefox are at the Firefox Keyboard Shorcut page. Thanks every one.

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