Browser Shortcuts

Hey, here is a list of some very useful browser shortcuts. Hope you find it useful.

The browsers that we tested are:

Safari 5.0.3 Chrome 8.0

Opera 10.63 Firefox 3.6.13

IE 9

1. Closing the present tab: Ctrl + f4

As all of us know that for opening a new tab has the shortcut: Ctrl + T, which works on all the browsers that I have tried. But for closing the present tab, the shortcut is barely used. Ctrl + f4 does this job and it works on all the five browsers. Opera, IE, Firefox, Chrome and Safari.

2. Opening a link in a new tab: Ctrl + 'click' , in a new window: Shift + 'Click'

Both the shortcuts work in Chrome, Firefox, IE and safari. In Opera, shift+'click' opens the link in a new window. There is also something known as the background tab which means that the tab opened will not be in focus. For example if you click on a link in chrome while pressing down the Ctrl key, then the new tab opened is not in focus. It opens in the background. This is by default in all the above four browsers except opera, in which for doing this we need to use Ctrl + Shift + click.

3. Selecting the address bar : f6 for chrome & safari and f8 for opera

This shortcut selects the address bar and brings the cursor there to edit it. It works for Chrome, Firefox, IE and safari. While for Opera the button f8 has to be used.

More to come...

If the reader wants to share a browser shortcut, he is completely to do that. The shortcut should be which one really needs and makes surfing a lot easier.