Below is a listing of our top 10 favorite Firefox keyboard shortcuts. Learning these shortcuts will greatly improve your productivity and overall experience with Mozilla Firefox.
Ctrl + T and middle-click
Pressing Ctrl + T opens a blank new tab or if you want to open any link in a new tab press your middle mouse button (often the scroll wheel) to open that link in a new tab.
Ctrl + Shift + T
Oops, close a tab you didn’t want closed, press Ctrl + Shift + T to undo any tab close. Pressing this multiple times will undo multiple closes.
F6
Quickly get to the URL address bar by pressing this function key.
Ctrl + F or /
Pressing Ctrl + F opens the find feature. Using this you can quickly find text within the same page. If you want to do a quick find and have Firefox scroll to the text location as you type press forward slash (/) instead while in the browser.
Ctrl + W
Close the tab you’re currently in.
Ctrl + Tab or Ctrl + Shift + Tab
Move between open tabs.
Ctrl + D
Open bookmark window for page currently viewing.
Ctrl + <plus>, Ctrl + <minus>, and Ctrl + 0
Pressing Ctrl + <plus symbol> will increase the font size, pressing Ctrl + <minus symbol> will decrease the font size, and if you want to reset the font size back to the default press Ctrl + 0.
F11
Make the screen full screen, removing all toolbars and status bars.
Ctrl + J
Open the Download Manager window.
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