This thread discusses the Content article: TechTip: Is Anybody Using Browser Shortcut Keys?

Page up and Page Down work to scroll up or down a page at a time too

And the plain arrow up and arrow down keys walk up scroll you up and down the web page in increments.

I use shortcut keys all the time. But, hey, I'm an old CPM/DOS guy, so I like the keyboard. However, I have to take issue with one you mention. Instead of Shift+Arrow, Alt+arrow(right or left) are the shortcuts for Navigate Forward or back, as with the buttons on the toolbar.

A couple of my other favorites, pretty much in any Windows app, are Ctrl+Home(or End) to go immediately to the top(or bottom) of the page. In Firefox, the browser I use 80% of the time, Ctrl+PageUp (or PageDn) will move through the tabs as well as the Ctrl+Tab.

Shortcut keys are something that I learned the benefit of while using WordPerfect 5 in DOS. I use them as frequently as possible. I really like the windows key shortcuts for dealing with window management(win+M to minimize all windows) and getting to explorer quickly (win+E). Every OS and app has some, it definitely pays to look them up. I use them on my Macs at home, too. They save a lot of time.

In some cases they can save your bacon too! I got a call from my wife that my daughter had a DVD stuck in the Mac at home with the desktop hung. How to get it out? Power up while holding the mouse button. While not exactly a keyboard shortcut, it is a shortcut to kick the DVD drawer open upon bootup.

On a final note related to the saving of bacon, knowing these keyboard shortcuts will take you a ways toward functioning within a GUI OS if your mouse craps out. We have several industrial CNC machines that use a Windows interface, but we've had touchscreens and mouse connectivity die fairly often. Without the knowledge of the keyboard shortcuts I would have had to just hit the power button, but knowing these helped to shut things down in an orderly fashion. -- Cheers

Thanks for you comment.

Sorry about the Shift/Alt typo - and thanks for setting me straight...

- Jan

> Page up and Page Down work to scroll up or down a page at a time too
...
> And the plain arrow up and arrow down keys walk up scroll you up
> and down the web page in increments.

And they're WAY more intuitive, too.

First: This is not a complete list !

But there are some extra shortcuts here you could use also!

Happy Browsing !

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Standard browser Shortcut keys
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Ctrl+N Open a new window
Ctrl+T Open a new tab
Ctrl+W Close the current window/tab
Ctrl+R Refresh
Esc Stop
Alt+ <- Back Alt+ -> Forward
Alt+Home Go to your homepage

Alt+D Move focus to the address bar to type in a URL

Ctrl+Enter Add "http://www." and ".com" around an address
* If you want to open a .org site, you need to use Ctrl+Shift+Enter.
* And for .net websites, the shortcut key is Shift+Enter.
Bonus Tip: If you like Firefox to add a different suffix
other than .com, open your Firefox settings page at
about:config and change the value of key browser.fixup.alternate.suffix
to something else like .org, .net, etc.

F11 Full Screen

MiddleClick (= mouse scrollwheel)
Middle-clicking a tab will close it, even if it's not the active tab

Firefox Shortcut Keys
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A livesaver !

Ctrl+Shift+T Undo closed tab (re-open the last closed tab)

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Ctrl+Tab Switch to the next tab
Ctrl+Shift+Tab Switch to the previous tab
Ctrl+[0-9] Switch to the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. tab

F3 Open the "Find Text As You Type" widget (bottom of screen)
/ Open the "Find Text As You Type" widget (bottom of screen)

' Open the "Find Links As You Type" widget (bottom of screen)

Ctrl+G Find the next occurrence of a search phrase
Ctrl+Shift+G Find the previous occurrence of a search phrase
Ctrl+K Move cursor to the Web Search widget (top right of screen)

Ctrl+plussign Zoom in the current web page
Ctrl+minsign Zoom out the current web page
Ctrl+zero Restore Text Size

Ctrl+R Refresh the page
F5 Refresh the page

F6 Move to Next Frame
Shift+F6 Move to Previous Frame

Ctrl+F5 Refresh the page fetching content from the server not from the cache

Caret Browsing F7

Delete In forms: Delete selected text
Shift+Del In forms: Delete Individual Form Auto-Complete Entry

Ctrl+J Show Downloads History (in windows only)

End Go to Bottom of Page
Home Go to Top of Page

Ctrl+U Page Source

Opera ( I wished they had that in Firefox too ! )
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In Opera, pressing shift+Esc lists all access keys used on the page,
and can be activated from that point using the single key alone.

Opera also allows the keystroke combination to be configured by the user,
making it possible to provide a single modifier key to invoke access keys,
rather than the default shift+Esc.