Learning to control your Internet browser faster is a very useful technique. To quicken your workflow, you can simply learn a few keyboard shortcuts. They will also help you in situations if your mouse stops working, if you open too many tabs, etc. Using this article you will learn the functions of basic shortcuts. The following shortcuts work in most browsers, and are certainly valuable in Internet Explorer® and Mozilla® Firefox®.
Basic Internet browser shortcuts:
- F1 – Help
- F3 or Ctrl+F – Open Find panel
- F4 – Unroll URL box (only in IE)
- F5 – Refresh
- Ctrl+F5 – Refresh the page with containing elements (css styles, scripts, etc.)
- F10 – Go to the main navigation bar (menu)
- F11 – Browser switch to fullscreen mode
- Alt+Home – Go to the home page
- Alt+left arrow – Back
- Alt+right arrow – Forward
- Ctrl+H – Open browsing history
- Ctrl+D – Add opened page to the bookmarks.
- Ctrl+N – Open new window
- Ctrl+T – Open new tab
- Ctrl+Tab – Go to the next tab
- Ctrl+Shift+Tab – Go to the previous tab
- Ctrl+n (n number from 1 to 8) – Go to the n tab
- Ctrl+9 – Go to the last tab
- Ctrl+W – Close current tab
