Browser Keyboard Shortcut Basics

I was recently conducting a workshop on some of the methods and tools being described as part of this series and someone asked me how I was opening pages in new tabs. It made me realize that as we are so wedded to our browsers for many of the things I'm describing, I really should point out a few browser keyboard shortcuts that everyone should know:

• Ctrl+T – new tab
• Ctrl+click on a Link – open in new tab
• Ctrl+Shift+click on a Link - open in new foreground tab
• Shift+click on a Link - open in new window (use for videos you want to play on the side while you continue to surf)
• Ctrl+Scroll wheel – larger/smaller font size
  
• Ctrl+= : Increases font size.
• Ctrl+- : Decreases font size.
• Ctrl+F – Find
• / - Quick Find
  
• Ctrl+G – Find again
• Ctrl+Tab – Next tab
• Ctrl+Shift+T - In Firefox, (re)opens the last tab that you closed
• Ctrl+L : Gets you right up into the Address/URL bar.
• F5 : Reload the page.
• Ctrl+K : Takes you to the Firefox search box.
• Ctrl+U : View the page’s source.

If you are not using any of these, go practice these and come back in a week and practice again.

Other Posts in the Series

• Tools and Methods 2009
  
• Work Skills Keeping Up
  
• Top-Down Strategy
  
• Better Memory
• Information Radar
• Processing Link Pages
• Network Learning
  
• Collaboration
• LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers
• Twitter as Personal Work and Learning Tool
• Search
• Browser Short Cuts
• Work Skills Workshop